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...reveal his trademark, a black t-shirt with the words “HIV POSITIVE.” His speech to the crowd of more than 150 was lively and humorous, referring frankly to his own HIV-positive condition and identity as a gay man. Achmat is the chair and founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, an HIV activism organization in South Africa. From 1998 to 2003, he stopped taking his antriretroviral drugs in protest against the drugs’ limited availability in South Africa. Achmat described AIDS as “the most important challenge for leadership...
...money, I will give what I can. For all the over-analysis that will consume this campus during the Senior Gift campaign, the wise will keep the arguments simple. And the wisest, I dare say, will donate enthusiastically.Alex Slack ’06, a former Crimson editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He is the co-chair of the Senior Gift campaign in his House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...showcasing documentaries about the hip-hop movement on the African continent. Nearly 250 delegates attended the weekend’s panels and interactive workshops held in the Science Center, which were geared toward spurring dialogue about a wide range of issues facing the present day pan-African community. Conference chair Kelley N. Johnson ’02 said the event encouraged the use of different art forms as a vehicle for social change. “Art-making is never in a vacuum...If you intertwine certain things like social causes, political causes, and pride, [the message] comes across stronger...
...peer-review journal of Harvard University. Elise B. Bassin, a clinical instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship between fluoride and cancer—contradicting the findings of her dissertation adviser Chester Douglass, the chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. “We found an association between fluoride levels in drinking water during childhood and osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20 years,” she wrote. Douglass’ $1.3 million dollar...
Playing off of the word “junior,” the committee decided to throw a middle-school dance featuring nineties pop music, JCEC co-chair Pia S. Desai ’07 said...