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...earned two degrees from Harvard—a bachelor’s degree in 1967, and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education—and also studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, England...
...Only an official overreaction to non-violent protest (a Birmingham, an Amritsar) can work in the demonstrators' favor. Has nonviolence become an archaic irrelevance? Maybe. But it does have a good historical record of succeeding where violence fails, where violence merely begets further violence, in the same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators...
Sometimes the messenger is the problem. The White House touted an event at a park near Birmingham, Ala., last month as an important talk on conservation, but the President gave a flat, disjointed speech that devoted five minutes to the subject. He seemed most interested in getting to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a three-day weekend--his sixth visit in less than six months as President. It didn't help that his promise to fully finance the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act was subverted by reports that his budget calls for cuts in a host of other...
...confident," says CEO Kevin Howe, a former Rover executive who was recruited back to the company by the new owners. Nonetheless, many analysts are convinced that MG Rover - the latest in a series of automakers to be based at the nearly century-old Longbridge factory outside Birmingham, England - isn't out of the woods yet. "They have created a new company with speed and adroitness," says Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School. "They're making cars that dealers find easy to sell and at good margins." But while Rhys thinks the company...
...Sometimes the messenger is the problem. The White House touted an event at a park near Birmingham, Ala., last month as an important talk on conservation, but the President gave a flat, disjointed speech that devoted five minutes to the subject. He seemed most interested in getting to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, for a three-day weekend--his sixth visit in less than six months as President. It didn't help that his promise to fully finance the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act was subverted by reports that his budget calls for cuts in a host of other...