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...that I didn’t have any comments,” said William W. Lambert ’06, who is also in the section. Lambert also said that it was not an isolated occurrence and that TFs had done this in other classes as well. Niyum A. Gandhi ’06, who was also referenced in the e-mail—King said he “spoke up toward the end” and “recited Psalm 123 without error”—expressed his sympathy for those who had received negative...
...DIED. GOPAL VINAYAK GODSE, 86, sole survivor of the group of five men who plotted the 1948 assassination of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi; in Pune, India. Godse served 16 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy; his brother Nathuram, who shot Gandhi, was executed in 1949. In his old age Godse showed no remorse for the murder of the pacifist leader, whom he believed had betrayed India by encouraging Hindus to coexist peacefully with Pakistan. Gandhi "had to be eliminated to save the country from further damage," Godse told the Hindustan Times...
...national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches .../ We will leave you your small joys/ and smaller troubles...
...pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town in August. Ben Kingsley screened a version of Gandhi dubbed in Arabic to promote nonviolent resistance. The town's cinema - the only one in the West Bank - reopened, and musicians founded a school to teach classical Arabic music in Ramallah's Old City. Even as the town's art scene revives, artists run into expectations that they'll play...
Skoll, who sees Participant as a way to straddle the line between business and philanthropy, is encouraged by the track record of other movies with a message that have achieved commercial success, such as Schindler's List, Gandhi and Hotel Rwanda. Persuading big- name stars like Frances McDormand and Charlize Theron to work on feel-good projects for a fledgling studio was a hurdle at first. "In the early days, we spent a lot of time trying to find people who were interested in what we were doing," he says. "Now we are inundated with people coming to us--actors...