Word: activists
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About 25 percent of Harvard undergraduates volunteer for a PBH program, while others are involved in activist initiatives like Harvard-RadCliffe. Amnesty International. Students volunteer for projects that range from tutoring elementary school students once a week to serving in soup kitchens, to writing letters on behalf of political prisoners...
...still, even she has her doubts. "There are so many things that people who are activist-minded could do, so the question isn't 'Is this effective sometimes?' It's 'Is it really worth it?"" she wonders. "Is it just going to make me feel better?"CrimsonHector U. Velazquez...
...poverty. The setup was apparently designed to ensure that the foreign donors' names would not appear on D.N.C. lists. A woman named Man Ya Shih, who is connected with a branch of the temple in Texas, told reporters that she was approached at the fund raiser by a "Democratic activist" who gave her $5,000 in small bills and asked her to write a check for that amount to the D.N.C. Last week the committee offered to reimburse the temple $15,000 for holding the fund raiser. But the party said it intended to keep...
...marriage predictably dissolves within the first twenty pages and Stewart quickly packs off to Senegal compelled by her lifetime obsession that she has always been "meant to exist elsewhere". Her excuse for the trip is dissertation research which requires her to interview and study with a Senegalese poet and activist, Ibrahim Mangane. Mangane, however, is not a purely educational pursuit, but rather an obsession and the embodiment of everything that Stewart wants. Happily married but infamous for his numerous affairs with young women, he is everything but the traditional young, stable and picture perfect...
Holland won some battles. He persuaded the board to expand into France despite Cohen's resistance, but that victory probably widened the divide between the two. Cohen opposes France's controversial nuclear-testing policies. Holland is something of a social activist in his own right. In Detroit in the 1980s, he created programs to help disadvantaged students graduate high school. Still, clear and early enough were Holland's and Cohen's differences that Holland never moved to Vermont from his home in New York City. Why get comfortable? Holland didn't return calls seeking comment...