Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That effort seems well worth it to the boat people's artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verg of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...aimed at insuring that hot issues receive the uniform scrutiny and treatment ideally accorded to the more standard council business of grants and a range of issues related to the residential, educational, and extracurricular lives of Harvard students. Those guidelines--while not binding on this year's representatives--will join an extensive set of internal memoranda and recommendations designed. Pratap says, to give the council an "institutional memory" that insures against the potential discontinuity that has hindered previous student governments...
...graduate school professors went to Washington to join the Reagan Administration. In June, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Alvin Alm became the number-two man at the Environmental Protection Agency following a shake-up in the scandal-ridden department. Alm, who also headed the K-School's energy-security program, came to Harvard in 1977 after serving then-President Jimmy Carter's Energy Department. The Law School's leading regulation specialist. Douglas H. Ginsburg, announced in July that he would take a leave to serve as an assistant in the Department of Justice's anti-trust division...
This summer, the Ivies extended invitations to four schools--Colgate, Army, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Vermont--to join them in a new league...