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...beginning of the spring campaign was marked by just one regatta this weekend, the Sharpe Trophy Team Race at MIT, which is a light schedule compared to the two, three, and four regattas the Crimson will compete in over the next three weekends respectively...
There's nothing like a good excuse to eat some curry. Some 17,000 people turned out on Feb. 24 in cities across Australia to eat dinner at Indian restaurants as part of Vindaloo Against Violence. The mass-dining campaign started as a 100-person Facebook event but soon grew into a show of solidarity with Australia's 450,000-member Indian community. Violence against Indians, including the suspected race-related murder of a graduate student on Jan. 2, has been on the rise in the past year...
...While the House of Representatives signaled its readiness last week to vote on recognition of the 1915 mass killings in Armenia as a genocide, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the White House would try to block such a vote—despite Obama’s campaign promise to recognize the killings as a genocide...
...Huaorani - are the Na'vi. They're fighting the same battle to preserve their wooded home and way of life against the encroachment of a foreign corporation. "There are so many parallels to Ecuador [in the film]," says Maria Ramos, director of the Rainforest Action Network's Change Chevron campaign. "We want Avatar fans to take off the 3D glasses and support a real-life struggle." (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...amazes me," he says. "People are screaming for him to get out, but there is no sense that he is trying to reform or justify himself. He feels his own strength. If needed, he knows he can rig the next elections or carry out such a massive p.r. campaign that the people will love him again ... It's naive to think he will cave...