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As Summers’ presidency crumbled in the face of Faculty discontent, Knowles was a confidante of Houghton and a friend of the president’s critics. Though he stepped publicly into the fight only to suggest the formation of a committee to negotiate between the Faculty and Summers...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Jeremy R. Knowles | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Cost of Control | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

It was last May, after the government refused to renew the license of an anti-Chávez broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace (at Least a Little) on Earth | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Students voiced discontent at the time because Third Eye Blind’s most popular music was released almost a decade before they took the steps of Memorial Church.

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wu-Tang Clan To Perform at College Concert | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

Memories - with their power to seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis de Bernières: Going Nowhere | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

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