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They are starting extra-curricular programs, running school improvement initiatives and rewriting school curricula. I'm writing now to call upon you to become part of this movement and to help build our country's future. --Wendy Kopp, Founder, Teach For America
That message soon became a recurrent refrain. In 1982, when his latest amour, Magdalena Kopp, a German Red Army Faction member, was arrested in Paris in a car loaded with explosives, Carlos penned a letter to the French embassy at the Hague, stamped with his thumbprints. It warned, "I will take up the matter personally with the French government" unless Kopp and a fellow conspirator were released within 30 days. Two months later, the car bomb went off for which Carlos now stands trial. According to the French daily Le Monde, one of the two lawyers he retained last week...
Between April 1982 and January 1984, Carlos' name was linked with attacks in Germany and France, including the bombing of a high-speed train outside Paris and the French Cultural Center in Germany, many in an effort to gain Kopp's freedom. She eventually joined him in Syria after she was released from prison in May 1985. Their sojourn in Damascus, which included a wedding and the birth of a daughter, was finally cut short in 1991, after newspapers publicized his whereabouts and an embarrassed Syria evicted...
Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus--Baritone Victor Jannett, tenor Ray DeVoll, violinist Jenifer Elowitch, cellist Michael Curry, pianist David Kopp, and pianist Rodney Lister will perform a memorial concert for Harvard alumni and others in the H-R community who have died from AIDS. Pain Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...WILL TEACH FOR AMERICA? (PBS, Sept. 3, 9 p.m. on most stations). In late 1989 Wendy Kopp conceived a sort of domestic Peace Corps to bring the best young teaching minds to underserved inner-city and rural schools. This intimate, uplifting account of the program's first year is guaranteed to make you smile...