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Three decades ago, I was one of the Jessy-friends. She was 11 when I first met her at her parents' home in Williamstown, Mass. Hunched over a cardboard carton filled with tiny squares of paper, she would grab handfuls of paper bits and let them sift down through her fingers--a repetitive activity that could absorb her for half an hour at a stretch...
PSLM members recently held a rally with a "Hunt for the Corporation" theme. They led students from University Hall to Loeb House holding cardboard effigies of Corporation members with the name, company affiliation and net worth of each emblazoned on the head and body...
...outlook for the garbage-dump people of Boa Vista is a fly-blown, post-apocalyptic scene of desolation at the edge of the world. Their shacks are built of cardboard, driftwood, old iron and fraying plastic. Near-naked children play tag among the filthy debris. Only one in three will survive beyond the age of five. Most of the Boa Vista squatters have no formal identity papers. They have to beg, steal or barter for food and clothing. Motorists who drive along the potholed road below the cliff-dwellers look the other way. "Yes, we know about Boa Vista," said...
PSLM framed the rally as a "hunt" for the Harvard Corporation. As the rally wound from Mass. Hall to Loeb House, protesters carried cardboard cutouts introducing members of the Corporation, which they described as "the single most important body standing in the way of a living wage policy at Harvard...
...cutouts included the names of Corporation members, the companies they direct and their net worth. The piece of cardboard representing Summers read, "Larry Summers: secretly chosen Harvard President...