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...Burgos to fear the worst. During the military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, her husband, Jose, had published a popular opposition newspaper. The paper's offices were frequently raided, and Jose Burgos was held under house arrest for two years. Jonas and his siblings were nursed on their parent's leftist politics, often taking photographs or covering rallies for their father. The family was also steeped in Catholicism. After her husband died in 2003, Edita Burgos became a lay Carmelite nun. Jonas himself briefly considered joining the priesthood, but instead took a degree in agriculture, specializing in organic farming. When...
...op’s radical reputation as a hotbed of leftist political activists didn’t come about until the late 1960s, according to Amelia G. H. Kaplan ’96-’97, who wrote her senior thesis on the history...
...Politics and activism collided for Stone while he was writing for the New Mexico Review and Legislative Journal, a leftist monthly...
...ways—continue to be ignored. A tenuous case can be made that the Administration is taking a harder line on human rights excesses in El Salvador. But the White House’s recent attempts to sell aims to the rightist regime in Guatemala and destabilize the leftist government in Nicaragua are telling signs of the President’s dangerous mindset. The Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country...
...Sounds good, but unions, leftist opponents, and even most French pundits say the new rules as conceived by Bertrand's law will allow business to impose their requirements and conditions for overtime on employees, rendering the 35-hour law obsolete even if it remains on the books. But given the topic's hot-button status, some pundits warn Bertrand and the government against trying to have its cake and eat it. The last time someone in tried getting tricky with cake during a tense summer in Paris was Marie-Antoinette - and we know how she ended...