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Speakers at the rally, which was organized by the American Anti-Slavery group, cited ongoing atrocities in Sudan and also highlighted new cross-campus efforts to fight such crimes, including the recent Senior Gift Plus movement started by Brandon M. Terry ‘05 and Matthew W. Mahan ‘05 on Harvard’s campus...
...these individuals speak out in opposition to the silence of Harvard is very frustrating to me,” said Matthew M. Mulder ’05 after the rally. “I think Harvard owes the students who signed the petition and who are withholding their senior gift at the very least an explanation for why they are not divesting...
...Brandon Terry ’05 could not be more true. The two former student organization presidents wrote the above denunciation in a Feb. 18 e-mail to the Class of 2005. In the e-mail, Mahan and Terry encouraged their peers to withhold their contributions to the Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating in a joint venture with the Sudanese government, providing Sudan with...
...particularly resonant scene of modern skepticism is one in which Constantine and fellow world-saver Angie dare to question the justice of the Catholic Church’s teaching on suicide; namely, that to kill oneself shows such disrespect for God’s gift of life that one could be damned for it. Angie demands that her sister receive a Catholic burial, and the priest’s refusal is portrayed as an inflexible slavishness to an outmoded rule...
...17” predicts will usher in the rein of Mammon, son of Lucifer. (Don’t bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while the plague imagery from Exodus becomes not a warning to repent, but simply a gross way for winged demonic beings to kill meddling humans...