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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer in a college chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. He says the movement died when the war ended. Perhaps a part of him died...
...investors in its projects as Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and the Hall family of Hallmark greeting-card fame. But in the past few months, Kroh has virtually collapsed. Beset by lawsuits and shunned by wary lenders, the company is now struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 provisions of the bankruptcy law. The brothers who ran the firm for 18 years -- John Kroh Jr., 46, and George Kroh, 49 -- have resigned, and a battalion of lawyers is trying to sort out the company's obligations to more than 2,000 creditors...
...almost at the telos of this chapter...
Harvard also has a local ODN chapter--the Harvard-Radcliffe International Development Forum (HRIDF)--with 15 student volunteers. Each of ODN's campus branches sponsor a grassroots community project in various parts of the developing world. The HRIDF is providing funds for a project in Bangladesh with money it raised in a dining hall fast...
...projects emphasize self-help, according to Chaudhuri. He says ODN's philosophy is to minimize the developers' role and encourage communities to carry out projects autonomously. The ODN chapter merely provides the money. "Hopefully they'll be able to reinvest the money and the project will become self-generating," says Lucy Perkins, a member of ODN's full-time staff...