Word: activists
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...have recently recommended that the words nigger, bitch and ho should be banned from the radio versions of songs, labeling them "extreme curse words." Why are you focusing on only these three words? -John Kensall, TorontoBecause every time you speak to a black activist, he will tell you that these three words offend him the most. [Eliminating] these three words will alleviate a lot of the pain...
Does history repeat itself? If you’re one of Harvard’s rabid calendar reform activists, the answer had better be a resounding no.The current push to amend the College’s schedule—aiming to start the fall term earlier and holding exams in December—is nothing new. “Calendar reform has been on the table at Harvard since the seventies,” said Undergraduate Council [UC] representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10. Every time the reform movement has achieved prominence, it has been met with...
...country also has its own environmental problems - with its long-dormant economy back in gear, carbon emissions are rising fast, and Japan will be hard-pressed to meet the Kyoto targets that were negotiated in its backyard. "Japan is moving in a very troublesome direction," says Mie Asaoka, an activist with the Kyoto-based environmental group Kiko Network...
...partly his understanding of this “serious intellectual history” that seems to drive Nusseibeh’s belief in a unique Palestinian identity as opposed to the Pan-Arabist beliefs his father expresses. Nusseibeh characterizes himself more as an academic than as a politician or activist. He studied at Oxford, Harvard, and Birzeit university in Ramallah, and is now the president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Yet Nusseibeh somehow manages to evade every role into which he might be cast. As a child of Arab nobility, he chooses to marry an Englishwoman. As a Muslim...
...acclaimed actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee has received a Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, garnered a place in the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy. And now Dee can add another accolade to her mantle after she received the 2007 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award last night in Appleton Chapel. Calling Dee a “brilliant American,” S. Allen Counter—the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over...