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...Harvard students, we’re spoon-fed an awful lot of codswallop about our university. Best this, first that; it’s sunshine and rainbows all the time. But Harvard students have always been wiser than our resident propagandists have assumed. We’ve been taught to challenge authority and never to shy away from calling a spade a spade. Consequently, we complain a lot, and we always have...
...That was the day hundreds of villagers, saying they were fed up with government corruption, stormed city hall, tossed out the top bureaucrats and occupied the building. Their strange protest continues today. Three dozen old women in smocks and sandals sit at the entrance, guarding against the removal of boxes of documents that they believe will prove the officials' guilt. A cauldron of congee cooks on an open fire in the driveway. One retiree, 73-year-old Li Biao, marches around the building in a T shirt with the phrase "Villager's Complaint" stenciled over the face of Bruce...
...administration’s refusal to really deal with these problems,” Napolitano said, adding that calling the effort a strike gives it a certain “militancy.” “This is the degree to which we are fed up and frustrated,” he said. The increase in college protests reflects trends across the country, he added. SLAM members spent nine days protesting at Harvard last year before the security guards won any changes for their contracts. Hunger strike organizer Jamila R. Martin ’07 noted the importance...
...bathrooms, but the improvements to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) are mostly too subtle to impress students, according to gym-goers interviewed yesterday. After the MAC closed for improvements last March, athletes migrated to Hemenway Gymnasium. Students said working out at the TV-outfitted, air-conditioned law school gym fed high expectations for the MAC’s re-opening Tuesday. “I thought they were going to do something with it like add another floor or something crazy like that,” said Shane P. Donovan ‘09, an Eliot House resident and captain...
That's why Chávez seems less than ruffled at being told by King Juan Carlos, "Por qué no te callas?" - Why don't you shut up? - over the weekend at the Ibero-American Summit of Iberian and Latin American leaders in Santiago, Chile. The king got fed up when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy...