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Along Mass. Ave. on the way to Central Square, the crowded display window of Revolution Books lies snuggled just between the Clayroom and A Taste of Culture. Many leftist and radical faces have been featured in this window over the past two decades of the independent bookstore’s life—including Karl Marx to Mumia Abu Jamal...
...similar leftist bookstore in Central Square, the Lucy Parsons Center, was driven out of its longtime home to make room for a new block of high-end condos. But Revolution Books has remained...
...anything, an alternative class will compel Feldstein to add more balance to his curriculum. He could replace classes and reading units that give leftist economists only token representation, such as in his lecture on Social Security reform, with a more pluralist presentation of economic principles and their application. More competition might even get him to finally hold office hours...
...real leadership on this or any other issue. But these days, alongside images of the Rio bloodshed, there's an uncommon sight that even Brazilian politicians apparently can't ignore: the nation's World Cup-champion football team Sporting Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) T shirts in support of leftist President Luiz In á cio Lula da Silva's ambitious antipoverty program. The team's gesture reflects, for the moment anyway, a rare sense of unified national purpose in Brazil. Last week's headlines also included all 27 of the country's state governors pledging to help Lula and his Workers...
...ourselves," he says. In 1991, Mavi, which means blue in Turkish, was born. It took some foresight to predict that jeans would take off in this mainly Muslim, albeit secular, country. Like Coke and rock 'n' roll, jeans arrived with American G.I.s in the '50s. They became a leftist uniform in the '70s, but it wasn't until the '80s with the advent of liberal leader - and fan of all things American - Turgut Ozal that they gained mass acceptance. A largely youthful population - some 55% of Turks are under the age of 25 - fueled the rise of Mavi...