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...these scholarly pursuits, McCarthy also throws himself into public service work. As the Academic Director of the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, McCarthy travels twice a week to Dorchester, Mass. to run a college humanities course for low-income adults. He is also the founding director and leader of the yearly alternative spring break trip to the South that reconstructs black churches burnt down in racially motivated arsons...
...He’s always looking to others to enrich his own life and to enrich the lives of others,” says Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, who has participated in the trip for the past three years and has been a student leader for the trip for the past two years. “He takes real pride and puts a lot of energy into connecting with the people around...
...just 31, Davis announced plans to challenge Earl Hilliard Sr., the first African-American elected to Congress from Alabama since Reconstruction. Davis was largely dismissed as an upstart who hadn't paid his dues by winning a lower-tier office. Despite being hailed by the Birmingham News as a "leader for the future," Davis lost. He attributed defeat to having raised barely $100,000. The next time he ran, in 2002, Davis had become adept at raising money, benefitting from donations from American Jewish groups concerned about Hilliard's views on Israel. Much of the African-American political establishment derided...
...reason for the ambivalence is wariness toward Obama's diplomatic overture. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently took note of Obama's kind words for Iran, but he questioned whether the new U.S. President was simply concealing an iron fist with a velvet glove. Although revolutionary ideology animates Iranian actions and rhetoric, Parsi believes that geopolitics is the main factor driving the Iranian regime's attitudes toward Israel and the U.S. In his book Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S., Parsi details a 2003 peace plan in which Iran essentially agreed to abandon terrorism and support...
...election results to back him up. Correa polled 52%, according to early results, trouncing his seven rivals in the first round of voting, a first since democracy's return to the Andean country in 1979. His closest rival, former coup leader Lucio Gutiérrez, deposed as President four years ago, won 28%. Correa, 46, will probably enjoy a majority in the National Assembly, Ecuador's legislature. He was first elected in 2006 after promoting a new constitution to lead Ecuador out of the "long night of neoliberalism." Close to two-thirds of voters approved that new charter last September...