Word: burma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative group taken an active stance in campus politics. Conservatism here tends to be expressed in enforced apathy. The opinions of Harvard students or the Undergraduate Council do not matter in the world, they say, and it is pretentious to think that Pepsi will pull out of Burma just because we say so (I'm sure they pulled out from the goodness of their corporate hearts). But to have a group challenge the very foundation of the progressive liberal orthodoxy was new and frightening...
...belief in "Harvard Students First" have been labeled as frivolous, do-gooder, liberal types who will get the students entangled in issues which they cannot change. In reality, the world listens to us. Much has been recently said about the Undergraduate Council discussing, to quote one member, "stuff like Burma...
...reality, the council was debating whether Pepsi, a company known for human rights abuses in Burma, should serve our dining halls. In a Spring 1996 vote, the council supported returning Coke to the dining halls. Following our example, other campuses did the same. Neither Michigan nor the University of Pennsylvania serves Pepsi. Moreover, I recently got a call from a high school classmate who had read the front-page Wall Street Journal article on our grape referendum. We clearly have a voice that reaches farther than Johnston Gate or the Massachusetts state line...
...Especially because my background, as far as making records, is sort of more in an electronic/dance realm and the Burma cover was a rock song...so it's those people who wouldn't otherwise be exposed to electronic dance music. But then again I make so many different types of music I think I'm a fairly confusing artist...
Richard Melville Hall, more commonly known as Moby, seems to have missed all of this. When his stripped-down band plunged into a cover of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," it could have been Clint Conley and Mission of Burma playing the song in '83. Mission of Burma covers are nothing new, but when the band follows up one by ripping through a cover of the "James Bond Theme," sounding just as serious, something strange is going on. And when the performer is best known for producing euphoric house music, you know it's not an ordinary...