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Despite Harvard’s leftist reputation, many members of the Class of 1953 say they felt generally in line with the rest of America on the question of the Korean conflict...
...featuring Cary Grant and Yugoslavia's Josep Broz Tito. In the works is a historical fantasy about 19th century America. And several members are writing solo novels under the names Wu Ming 1 (Bui) through Wu Ming 5 (Pedrini). But what about the utopian vision, the leftist imagination, the quirky tactics that first brought the group together? "We still like pranks," says Bui. "Now we insert them into our novels." With success, fame may be playing a prank on them...
Letters to a Young Activist, a new book by Todd Gitlin ’63, is the work of a passionate and lifelong leftist...
Showing his idealist’s stripes, Gitlin writes that in the post-Sept. 11 era, leftist activists will not only have more causes to rally around, but a new paradigm for organizing...
Leather-clad punks and squatters fighting the police, leftist bohemians and amateur philosophers, Turkish immigrants creating a world of their own - Kreuzberg lures those seeking chaos and adventure. Before the Wall fell, in 1989, all of Berlin had a special edge to it, a sense that life here was dangerous and vivid and played for high stakes; Kreuzberg hasn't quite lost that feeling. Busloads of tourists no longer move through the area, gawking at the anarchists and punks; the district is more prosperous these days, because the Wall's fall put it in the center of Berlin. But Kreuzberg...