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World-renowned activist, physician, and Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Paul E. Farmer spoke to a packed auditorium last night to kick off the five-day IMPACT summit sponsored by Harvard International Development Organization (HIDO...
...course, taught by Palmer in Spring 2004, was attended by more than 600 students. During each lecture, students grilled prominent activists and world leaders—including physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, well-known sociologist Juliet Schor, and left-leaning historian Howard Zinn—about their work and their visions for social change...
...Dongzhou fishermen. The protest ended violently, with at least three people killed by security forces. Lin was one of them. "We thought he escaped to a better life in the city," says his brother, who refuses to give his name for fear of official retribution. "But he died a farmer...
...They were yelling 'Allahu akbar [God is great]!' and then were slowly buried. I saw them buried alive." SARYONO, a fruit farmer from Cijeruk, Indonesia, where 200 people were believed to have been killed when a landslide engulfed his village on the island of Java "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." MARTIN TOLER JR., one of 12 American miners who died last week after an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia, in a scrawled note found with his body...
There have always been rich and famous people who feel the call to "give back," which is where big marble buildings and opera houses come from. But Bill and Melinda didn't set out to win any prizes--or friends. "They've gone into international health," says Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, "and said, 'What, are you guys kidding? Is this the best you can do?'" Gates' standards are shaping the charitable marketplace as he has the software universe. "He wants to know where every penny goes," says Bono, whose DATA got off the ground with a Gates Foundation...