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...March 9, 1999: With the largest group of students in recent memory rallying outside of University Hall, the Faculty voted to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, who pled guilty to the charge of indecent assault in the fall of 1998. The students called for "justice"--a cry that united activists from the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the Living Wage Campaign. Earlier that week, the University publicly endorsed "full disclosure" of the locations of factories where Harvard apparel is made, partially assuaging PSLM's demands...
...matter of a few weeks, we were talking with national press," says Milikowsky. Several weeks later, the Rally for Justice was held, attracting national press and several hundred demonstrators outside University Hall, as the Faculty voted to dismiss Douglas inside. Milikowsky was a featured speaker at the rally. Since then, the coalition has had several meetings with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and other members of the administration...
...Seven months later, a presidential directive finally went out to the Energy Department. Yet little action was taken until September 1998, after new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrived, another glaring delay that officials lamely ascribe to "bureaucratic inertia." Last week more than 80 members of Congress demanded that Clinton dismiss the National Security Adviser for "failing in his responsibility...
...fashionable now to dismiss Tiananmen as a reckless, nihilist uprising. In that view, the crackdown was an unpleasant necessity to keep China from spinning into chaos. But that slant requires a selective recall. The movement was initially a peaceful call for reform. But Deng Xiaoping didn't get that. Soon after the demonstrations began, he ordered the People's Daily to tar the movement as "a planned conspiracy" and "a riot," transforming China's idealistic young into enemies of the state. With that error, Deng lost the ability to compromise...
Primakov was certainly not a perfect Prime Minister, and it was easy for Yeltsin to find a reason to dismiss him. Officially his crime was nonfeasance: the failure to drag Russia from its spiraling depression. In the days before his dismissal, Yeltsin aides began to prepare for the change by depicting Primakov as a man suffering from lockjaw on the crucial economic issues Russia now faces. But there was also worry inside Yeltsin's circle that the Prime Minister was suffering from a more pernicious disease: ambition. While he had studiously denied any interest in running for President...