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...PSLM grew, so did Harvard’s activist community. Suddenly, political protest and advocacy were back in vogue at Harvard...
...instead characterized himself as “a more moderate strategic-minded liberal antiwar activist...
CONVICTED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 71, former Ku Klux Klan activist; of first-degree murder in the deaths of four young girls in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church; in Birmingham. Sentenced to life in prison under 1963 Alabama law, Cherry, who bragged about his deed, was the third man to be convicted of the crime that shamed pro-segregationist whites and galvanized civil rights leaders (a fourth died before being tried). Of the 39-year march toward justice, Sarah Collins Rudolph, the sister of victim Addie Mae Collins, said, "It was a long time...
...prosecuting its war on terror in Afghanistan, New Delhi feels the time is right for its own crackdown. In Kashmir, it is: even Kashmiri militants, who desire independence from India, agree that their guest mujahedin are as nasty as they are unwelcome. "They are trying to Talibanize Kashmir," says activist Mohammed Kaleem. "Their only objective is to destroy India." Mehbooba Mufti, vice president of the pro-India People's Democratic Party, says the jihadis are giving Vajpayee's government exactly the justification it needs: "They always want to keep the Kashmir pot boiling...
...games from 1969-1980, the Hungarian-born Kubala helped his club win four league titles and five Spanish Cups. He also played for Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and did brief coaching stints for the Saudi Arabian and Paraguayan national teams. DIED. KHUNYING KANITTHA WICHIENCHAROEN, 82, gutsy lawyer and women's activist; in Bangkok. One of the first women in Thailand to receive a university education, Kanittha devoted her career to battling discrimination against women. Among her triumphs: establishing a shelter for abused women and children, and decriminalizing prostitution. After becoming a Buddhist nun, she tried in vain to raise the lowly...