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...fellowship, to be named in Sakharov’s honor, would designate a “visiting scholar or activist from the former Soviet Union,” the Davis Center staffer said...
...says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder Li Dan says he applied repeatedly. He suspects the school was shuttered because it was getting publicity. "The minds of the local Henan officials are very closed," says Wan Yanhai, a Beijing AIDS activist. "Their first impulse is to suppress information...
...time Kerry's second wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, joined his world, she was already a prominent activist and philanthropist in environmental, health and education causes. Kerry credits her with shaping his thinking on all those issues, particularly about the ways in which business and government can work together. And while the outspoken Heinz Kerry insists she is merely "the wife," she has not hesitated to occasionally offer public criticism of campaign decisions--for instance, telling reporters last year that Kerry should have been advertising on television earlier...
...Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03, a veteran of the anti-war and living wage movements at the College. “Mona Polist,” their director of campus outreach, is in fact Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, also a longtime Harvard activist on the left and a Crimson editor. “John McMillions” differs by only a letter or two from the flesh-and-blood John C. McMillian, a history and literature tutor and resident tutor in Quincy House. And the eloquently-named “Mo Bludfer-Oyle?...
...Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has said he will not campaign for Kerry until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters. "People want to like Kerry. People want to be enthusiastic about him. But for whatever reason, they're not," says Julianne Malveaux, a Washington-based black activist and writer who attended a recent Florida retreat for African-American political consultants...