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Kate Goodspeed came to missionary work late. First, she was a political activist, attracting worldwide attention for a debilitating four-week hunger strike outside the White House protesting the Gulf War. When the conflict ended, she wanted to share her faith, hoping for a mission post in what she considered the world's most troubled region, Africa. Instead, her church sent her to China to teach university students. Goodspeed, 56, carried her Bible and her activism to the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China. There she developed a popular style: she asks students to submit journals, which she returns...
Publicly, FAS officials deny that tensions exist, but privately, some administrators say that they are concerned about Fineberg's activist role in academic matters...
...claim to Astérix's peasant style, but in truth Bove is considerably more urbane. Although born in Bordeaux in 1953, he spent most of his first seven years living in Berkeley, California, where his parents studied biochemistry at the University of California. A college activist who came of age during the aftermath of France's May 1968 student uprising, he moved to the country in 1975 with his wife to join a small farmer movement against the planned expansion of a military base. In 1987, he launched his Confederation Paysanne organization, which organizes small farmers to take actions...
...says expansion in an activist direction does not signal a divide within PBHA...
...politics. After all, just two weeks ago Ehud Barak was warning Israeli voters that electing Sharon would be a national catastrophe; on Tuesday Barak was locked in negotiations over how to join Sharon in government. The outgoing prime minister also signed off on the overnight assassination of a Palestinian activist in Gaza by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter, as a reminder that the two parties take a common view of how Israel should deal with those its intelligence agencies conclude are engaged in terrorism...