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Rose B. Styron, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center and a prominent human rights activist, held an informal conversation about her life experiences with an small audience in the Kirkland House Senior Common Room last night...
...heard her speak last year during my senior year of college and her words were part of what inspired my career choices as a human rights activist," Lin said. "It’s hard to sometimes get a sense of these real heroes like Rose Styron who go out and do human rights work in the field...
...sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama's goal--a nuclear-weapon-free world--still sounds quixotic, but real...
Sylla said that his friend and former colleague Fred “Fritz” Klein, a bisexual activist and psychiatrist and founder of the AIB, had an inspiring response to people who came to him exwpressing concern that their feelings or practices were shameful or weird—“That’s wonderful!” Klein would reply...
Maybe Bertone should have taken the silent route too. Gay-rights groups around the world lashed out at the comment, starting with Chilean activist Rolando Jimenez, who called it part of a "perverse strategy by the Vatican to try to escape its own responsibility" for allowing abusive priests to go unchecked. More telling was criticism from within the church. U.S.-based Jesuit writer Father James Martin publicly took on Bertone, disputing the research behind the theory and pointing out that the Pope himself declined to cite a correlation between homosexuality and sex abuse of minors when asked by reporters...