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Nworah B. Ayogu ’10, the political action chair for the BMF, said that he was hopeful that the protest and fast would persuade Harvard to influence AlliedBarton in rewriting its contracts to make them more respectful of the “basic rights any workers deserve...
...General Peter Pace visited Moscow a month ago and tried to convince his Russian counterpart that extending the U.S. system to European bases was intended to counter an expected Iranian threat, and would not weaken Russia's own nuclear deterrent. "The math and geometry is fairly straightforward and fairly basic," he said. "If the Russians were to fire a missile at the United States, the [U.S. interceptor] missile that's in Poland would not be able to catch the missile that was fired from Russia...
...between liberty and slavery. For black Americans the consequences were tragic and lasting. Jamestown's creation instilled in the broader culture the belief that African Americans, even though they were among the earliest arrivals, did not belong to the body politic and were to be permanently excluded from all basic rights of citizenship...
...initial goal of the Katrina Furniture Project is to create a network of workshops where residents can both make furniture and gain basic carpentry skills. "They are going to learn the skills to do repairs in their own home. So next time the storm comes, they don't have to wait 18 months for the federal government to react," explains Palleroni, who says he is alarmed not only by the "federal paralysis" that has stalled recovery but also by the cache of cultural artifacts that have already been lost to landfills. "It may be happening to New Orleans...
...Sunnis have the more obvious cause for alarm. The Sunni residents of Adhamiya are already prisoners in their own neighborhood. Leaving the neighborhood necessitates traveling through Shi'ite territory, so few take the risk. Meanwhile access to basic goods and services is slowly being choked off as the area comes under frequent mortar attack. With this ancient Sunni community slowly being strangled to death, its residents were unlikely to rejoice at the prospect of being surrounded, "for their protection," by a 15-foot-high barrier of gray concrete slabs...