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Somos started to organize forums where elected officials were invited to hear the stories of immigrant students. It used its relationships with other community groups and the media to pressure elected officials into paying attention. And when officials began to listen, they changed their minds. Pretty soon, Somos had found legislators to introduce legislation that would address their concerns. That’s when they planned their “Immigrant Student Lobby...
...flying "balls to the wall," and coming close to "augering in." As an Air Force test pilot on captain's pay, he took the same risks as his high-salaried civilian counterparts. He resented those who flew for the money and was riled by flyers he felt did not listen to an experienced country boy. Scott Crossfield "just knew it all, which is why he ran a Super Sabre through a hangar." Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and "the last guy at Edwards to take any advice from a military pilot," ignores a warning and sticks...
...drone of rush-hour traffic is spilling from the parkway. Nightfall approaches, and in the chill air Babcock slowly begins to pack his tools. "I must have given a hundred talks," he remarks. "Each time I say the same thing: save the barns! People listen, but they don't act." On the Baker place, the sheep barn's rectangular skeleton now glows softly, a spare Doric temple in the twilight. Babcock touches the smoothly hewn frame with a hammer-size hand. "Look how carefully they worked. They thought they were building for the future." He brightens into a smile...
...Christian resolution of the nation's problems. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, the powerful Zulu leader who has fought apartheid by refusing independence for Kwa-Zulu, his tribal homeland, may talk about some kind of power sharing with whites. But the unemployed young blacks of the townships are more inclined to listen to the voice of the long-banned African National Congress, whose leader, Nelson Mandela, has been imprisoned by the government since 1962. From exile, the acting heads of the 73-year-old nationalist movement have vowed to win independence by intensifying military action and by extending a sporadic sabotage campaign...
First, they used targeted tactics. Collins and Bhatnagar were persistent in meeting with every important insider who would listen to them. Mahan and Terry chose a tactic that guaranteed that every Senior would consider their cause. Adjah and the BSA organized a protest that sent a clear and somber message...