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...romance has cooled. Some African activists worry that Beijing still sometimes props up ancient autocrats like Mugabe. In nations with strong civil societies like South Africa, there is a growing realization that many Western firms train local workers and understand how to operate in a free political environment. Meanwhile, activists in places like Ethiopia and Namibia have condemned Chinese investment practices, including poor wages and importation of Chinese laborers. In one of the worst incidents, Zambia exploded in protest after an accident at a Chinese-owned copper mine there in 2005 killed over 50 Zambians...
...worked as a cowboy on a ranch in Northern California and harbored little interest in the kind of work done by his father, who died when the boy was 12. That changed in the summer of 1964, after graduating from college, when Ickes headed south to work for the civil rights movement. The next year, he was beaten so severely by a gang of whites in Louisiana that he lost a kidney. Ickes has been a practicing political operative ever since...
...added. Faust said that she would invoke the past to demonstrate the important relationship between military service and citizens’ rights. “I think here about the ways in which military service and full citizenship have been so closely aligned, and as a civil war historian in particular, I think about what military service meant to African Americans,” she said. “And I think we see another issue here with another segment of the population that’s been told they cannot participate in the military, and that?...
Interests: Science (girls CAN do science!), sunbathing in the Yard, spying on students from the Mass Hall windows, anything about the Civil War, Southern Americans, really advanced studies, scorpion bowls, history...
Favorite Books: Gone With the Wind, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil...