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Nevertheless, the national media has already recognized Third Millennium and other pretenders to the generational mantle with magazine covers and reams of newsprint. The group's glitzy kick-off press conference last July marked a "new generation's arrival," gushed the Dallas Morning News. A new Kennedy (RFK's son, Douglas, who is one of the group's co-founders) was ready to lead a new progressive era, reported a New York tabloid. Third Millennium's founders have even been compared to the leaders of students for a Democratic Society, which participated in the Social revolution of the 1960s...
Self-promotion may not be the only force at work Some young leaders accuse neoconservative, pop historian Strauss of using Third Millennium to publicize his polemical twentysomething book 13thgen. The group's kick-off press conference was originally planned for early March to coincide with the opening for 13thgen but drafting the Third Millennium declaration took longer than expected. "I see Third Millennium as a big publicity stunt for his book." says McLeod...
Despite rumors from University insiders thatfundraisers will have raised half of the $2billion goal by the May 13 kick-off, Rudenstinesaid the campaign organizers will be lucky to havea quarter of the total...
Carolyn A. Pelzel, associate director fordevelopment, is in charge of coordinating the May13 kick-off, which will be an attempt to "show thefull range of activities at Harvard...
...Adams House dining hall was buzzing as always with Crimson editors last Sunday night. They weren't monopolizing the long tables and snarfing escalloped turkey in 10-person posses, though. Instead, they were evenly distributed among the oft-crowded-out Adamsians. It wasn't the kick-off for the latest "Crimeds Are People, Too" campaign. Any casual observer could see that...