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...stage a takeover of Mass. Hall in protest of Harvard’s holdings in Gulf Oil, which supports the military regime in Angola. The takeover galvanizes the South African divestment campaign. In 1977, 2000 students block the entrance to University Hall in protest; in 1986, 200 divestment activists erect a shanty town and a symbolic ivory tower in the yard. The ACSR petitions for divestment from South Africa regularly between...
...much more than a meter tall, with a brain capacity about a third of that of modern man. Lucy's skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect ... As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent ... Now all that has changed ... While his Australopithecus cousins foraged or scavenged, Homo habilis began to make tools and to hunt. Both actions accelerated his evolution ... "There have been thousands of living organisms," [Leakey] says...
...letter of "regret" sent to Barroso last week, he wrote: "In politics, the only relevant issue is: Are you in favor of or against discrimination? ... I am against any kind of discrimination, [which means] defending those who hold views different from your own." Buttiglione says he can erect a firewall between his personal religious convictions and his duties as a public servant. But with both sides holding such passionate and diametrically opposed views, the fight over gay rights seems destined to burn brightly for a while...
Clever advertising efforts on the part of drug companies magnify my sense of the absurd. The press package sent to us by Levitra—the new Viagra-like pill that lasts for hours—contains folded pens that become erect at the press of a button, and a stopwatch. Awesome...
...Instead, the Virginian was eclipsed by the 35-year-old wunderkind from the Caribbean, who was a lowly artillery captain in New York when Jefferson composed the famous document. Despite his murky background as an illegitimate orphan, the self-invented Hamilton was trim and elegant, carried himself with an erect military bearing and had a mind that worked with dazzling speed. At first, Hamilton and Jefferson socialized on easy terms, with little inkling that they were destined to become mortal foes. But their clash inside George Washington's first Cabinet proved so fierce that it would spawn the two-party...