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...When I was a teenager, I saw young people lead the fight for civil rights,” Edwards said...
...Europe and the U.S. But these qualities have also earned Al Hayat many enemies in a part of the world with virtually no tradition of--or appreciation for--objective journalism. Under the editorship of Jihad al Khazen, the paper, based in London, has undertaken hard-hitting stories about the civil war in Algeria, corruption in Jordan, internecine butchery in Iraq and the sort of radical Islamic extremism in Egypt that produced Salameh and other followers of Sheik Rahman...
...years later, when Disney was involved in a controversial effort to build a history theme park near the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia, the company wanted the state to pitch in $132 million for the necessary road improvements--a demand that was contributing to what was steadily becoming a genuine public relations calamity. By that time, Eisner was making $202 million a year, so I suggested publicly that he pay for the roads himself. That would still leave him an annual take of $70 million. We knew he could live on that, because...
...looking after the common man and not for corporations,” he said. “No one has ever identified any cancers from chromium-6. You can claim it, but you can’t prove it.”John Sullivan, president of the Civil Justice Association of California, a litigation oversight group endorsed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., sent a letter to Dean of HSPH Barry R. Bloom outlining his view that Brockovich-Ellis should not be honored with the award. “It is really amazing and shocking that a school of public...
...experimental academic atmosphere. Some might argue that only by challenging absolutely every social norm—especially bedtime and eating routines—can a university produce the new progressive ideas that put it at the forefront of its goal to move society forward. Could it be that the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War campaign of the 1970s are cut from the same cloth as the late night pizza run and the surprisingly-alcoholic Scorpion Bowl?For the sake of humanity, let’s hope not. Late-night thinking may have produced the keg-stand...