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...accounts, is considered an urban industry pioneer. His decision in 1996 to hire former Black Entertainment Television host Tavis Smiley to provide daily political commentary on The Tom Joyner Morning Show was pivotal in raising political activism and awareness among blacks via the airwaves. His endeavors, which continued to gain momentum with both Bill Clinton administrations and the campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry, have extended this election season to include a free hotline for voters to report poll site irregularities. (Joyner will testify in front of Congress this week on the subject...
...those nobody else seems willing to help. They include the Polisario Front, the government in exile of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, which ID is helping in its struggle for independence. Then there's Somaliland, which has been independent since 1991 and is taking advice from ID on how to gain international recognition. "You should be engaging with all groups," says Ross, "not just governments sitting in offices and embassies." After a career spent deciding the fates of people who weren't even in the room, Ross gives the voiceless a chance to have their say--before they find more drastic...
...place when the rest of the film glamorizes the Vegas lifestyle.At the beginning of the movie, a Harvard admissions officer asks, “What can you tell me that’s going to dazzle me?” Ben responds with his story of enormous gain and loss in Vegas, but Luketic’s direction fails to answer this question in a meaningful way. But if one doesn’t need to be dazzled and settles for being simply entertained, the odds are in the house’s favor...
...some ties to Harvard: Their older daughter, Cate, is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. The other fellows’ arrival marks continued efforts by the IOP to expand its international focus. The first woman to serve as president of Latvia, Vike-Freiberga helped her country gain membership to North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union during her two terms from 1999 to 2007. “She is generally an emblem of gender equality,” said Woodbridge Society liaison Alexandre J. Terrien ’11. “She is very important...
...family almost disintegrating. Another chapter, with a backbone of interview comments, recounts the story of Michael, an illegal Fujianese immigrant who risked his life to travel to the United States to support his family. He eventually went on to run his own restaurant, but it was not for personal gain or out of choice that he left home. As Lee makes explicit, “[Chinese immigrants] don’t gamble with their lives for their own sakes. They do it for their parents—and their children.” With such understandings as this, Lee shows...