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...costumes) who while on hiatus in New York City needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned a T shirt using the quilting stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went home to Florence, Ala., a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There...
...fact accountable, the brutal assassination would be motivated by the Syrian leadership’s desire to reassert its power in Lebanon. In recent months, the U.S. has chosen to lambaste Syria’s presence in Lebanon, subsequently imposing sanctions on the country—an ironic demand considering the American occupation of Iraq. Thus, Damascus may have wanted to assassinate Hariri, a prominent Syrian opposition advocate, in a bid to reassert its government’s shaky grip on power in the face of U.S. pressure. The other scenario is that another organization or country was responsible...
...Terry’s proposed boycott would hold hostage much of the potential impetus for such desirable changes in the future. Seniors should not withhold donations to financial aid initiatives to achieve a desirable change in Harvard’s investment policies. There are other, less detrimental ways to demand divestment from Sudan...
...Mahan and Terry are serious as they seem to be about their desire to have Harvard divest from Sudan, there are much more forceful, symbolic means of demanding that change. In the 1970s and 1980s, Harvard students campaigned for the University’s divestment from apartheid South Africa with more gusto than that involved in Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott. On April 23, 1978, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Pusey Library to demand divestment during a closed-door meeting of the Harvard Corporation during which stock policy for the year was to be determined...
Fifteen students staged a sit-in at Yale’s Admissions Office yesterday to demand reforms in the college’s financial aid policies, occupying the building for over eight hours until New Haven police officers and university officials shut it down...