Word: cancellations
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...world stage. The Oscar-nominated actress, brave enough to go stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted and forced to become soldiers...
Geldof and other Africa activists, like U2 front man Bono, are wonderful advocates for the push to cancel the continent's debt and open up Western markets to Africa's farmers. But I suggest they change their tune and come up with a hit demanding that the West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like...
...take action: we handed out male and female condoms, we asked people to write letters to their senators asking to more fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, we asked people to write holiday cards to Secretary of the Treasury John Snow asking to cancel debt in developing countries, and we collected donations for Cambridge Cares about AIDS. Two Harvard students (Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 and Leah H. Pillsbury ’07) performed stirring spoken word pieces, which rounded out the call-and-response tone of the evening...
...library now only subscribes to some of those journals, and Verba said he expects more subscription cuts. However, he said the library does not cancel subscriptions easily, and only after consulting the Faculty...
...Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. (President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo tried visiting Real by helicopter on Wednesday but had to cancel her trip because of the bad weather.) In Real, a three-story building at a beach hotel complex that was being used as an evacuation center collapsed, killing 114 and leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan...