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Last night, Sudan native Simon A. Deng addressed the crowd, telling them of his own experiences during the country’s civil war in the 1960s...
...industry where beauty, either physical or vocal, often counts more than talent, Bob Dylan continues to defy musical convention and set the standard of success. From his role as a voice of protest at the height of the anti-war and civil rights movements of the ’60s and ’70s to his latest and highly acclaimed album, Love and Theft, Dylan, over the past 40 years, has sung, inspired and changed the American music tradition so much as to embody the tradition itself...
...immediately took off after his ballad, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” was brought to a commercial audience by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Sullivan points out Dylan’s relevance to one of the greatest moments in the American Civil Rights movement by adding that Dylan was introduced at the March on Washington shortly before Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream Speech...
...other half? Larry Herbst Pasadena, California, U.S. Your story on the divided state of the country was inspired and posed a warning that all should heed. Disagreements are destroying the U.S. from within. Politics has become a major contributor to the breakdown of trust, without which government and civil society cannot function. And we are setting a ghastly example for the world. The presidential campaign was not a shining model of democracy but a no-holds-barred push to win at any cost - a sort of politics of mutually assured destruction. We should delay any future elections until the Democrats...
...Student civil rights activists suggest that Harvard should divest its $590,000 of Mississippi Light and Power Company bonds and its $12 million in Middle South Utilities Company stock, as both companies have segregated facilities and discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The University rebuffs the suggestion, leading to student condemnation of President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Students also protest the University’s holdings in General Motors and several utilities companies accused of polluting...