Word: masses
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...MICHAEL D. MITZENMACHER ’91 Cambridge, Mass...
...JEFFREY KWONG ’09 Cambridge, Mass...
...worst part of this predicament was that I was stuck, unless I was willing to fritter away the rest of my summer bored out of my mind and unemployed.As an underaged high school student in a college town, I had already experienced that summer as a season of humbling mass rejection. This was the first year I could officially work, and at the outset the prospect of earning my own pocket money had been fresh and exciting in the way only foreign concepts can be.At first, I went for the cream of the crop—cafés, book...
...SUZY M. NELSON CATHERINE R. SHAPIRO BARBARA E. BOOTHBY PAUL J. BARREIRA Cambridge, Mass...
...Opposition to Gayoom's rule reached a peak in late 2003, when news leaked of government violence against political prisoners led to mass protests on the streets of the Maldives' capital, Male. "We had been telling the population that they deserved better," says Ahmed Moosa, a prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein...