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...Friends of Burma, which Thant and her husband helped co-found three years ago, has about 200 members, only about 20 of which are students, Thant said. Only two or three of the student members are undergraduates, she said...
Sidestepping a bread-and-butter youth agenda, Third Millennium is focused on hot- button media issues. "the whole group is feeding off the boomer media and telling them exactly what they want to hear ," says Who Cares? magazine associate editor Heather McLeod '89, who refused an invitation to co-found the group. A clear message makes for a better soundbite. And with a carefully tailored agenda, Third Millennium went to where the spotlight...
...years after that, Williams defected from the Labour Party to co-found the Social Democratic Party, becoming the first person to win a seat in Parliament as a member of the new party. She served as president of the Social Democrats until the party formally merged with England's Liberal Party...
DIED. John Upton, 84, obstetrician-gynecologist whose interest in transfusions led him in 1940 to design a portable transfusion kit used by the military during World War II to treat thousands of U.S. and British wounded, and in 1941 to co-found the first U.S. nonprofit community blood bank, the Irwin Memorial, which served as a central supplier of blood and plasma to all hospitals in San Francisco; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Curle advised the government of Pakistan on social development from 1956 to 1959, and then headed the Education Department of the University of Ghana from 1959 to 1961. Breaking with Nkrumah over the arbitrary dismissal of some colleagues, he came to Harvard in 1961 to co-found the Center for Studies in Education and Development. As the Center's director, he has helped nurture educational experiments in seven underdeveloped countries from Venezuela to Nigeria...