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...fund is invested directly or indirectly in companies tied to Sudan. And Harvard students campaigning for an end to the genocide said they would support a move to divest if city officials discover these connections.Scott Warren, the Brown freshman who worked closely with Providence Councilmen David Segal and Miguel Luna in developing the divestment legislation, said that the move has a significant symbolic effect beyond its monetary impact. A member of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, Warren had conducted extensive research and lobbied to bring about Brown’s divestment in February before assisting Providence councilmen...
...public works, Nesreen Barwari—who arrived in the U.S. yesterday—will lead a study group on Iraq’s current state of affairs, security issues, and social, political, and economic challenges. And Peru’s former ambassador to the U.S. Ricardo A. Luna will conduct a group on the five Andean countries—Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela. In addition, former Boston Globe national editor Kenneth J. Cooper will host a study group entitled “Black and Brown Together Forever? Black Latino Coalition Politics in the 21st century...
...break, I mentally cast myself in “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.” I wear a clingy red dress, with a red flower nestled perfectly among my tumbling curls, as I sway my hips during a sensual salsa with the film’s heartthrob, Diego Luna. After all, the heroine of “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” was a Radcliffe girl—I could find a sexy Latin lover too, right? But once I arrived, the Harvard side of my brain got the best of me. I spent more time thinking about...
...early start: at 14 he soloed with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Without informing his management or family, he applied to Harvard and was accepted. He began developing a taste for modern music that further alienated him from the classical establishment. He soon married composer Luna Pearl Woolf ’95, whom he met at Harvard. Together, they created Oxingale Records, the label under which he released his strikingly imaginative recording of Bach’s Six Cello Suites, replete with an exuberant cover photograph of Haimovitz in a wheat field, triumphantly lifting his cello...
...Barwari] will obviously bring a real knowledge and expertise on what is going on in the Middle East, and Ricardo Luna will bring tremendous knowledge on Latin America, which are really two hot spots in the world,” IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen said...