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...goal of the Harvard Development Office is to raise gifts for Harvard University that support our education and research mission,” Rogers wrote in an e-mail. “Through that mission, Harvard is vitally engaged throughout the world, including in Africa...
Wang, who had graduated from Dartmouth just three years earlier, spoke at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton before coming to Harvard. Wang’s mission was to stir up pro-segregation sentiment among students at Ivy League colleges and to try to organize campus branches of the White Citizens’ Councils, according to a Crimson report at the time...
...Maoism, railing against exploitative mining companies and chanting about the evils of New Delhi. Dozens of young kids listened intently. In a mock training drill put on for the visiting reporters, the same kids watched uniformed insurgents practice creeping through thick jungle and assume various attack positions. "Our prime mission is to awake the public and then revolution will happen automatically," a squad commander named Bhima told...
...That would be easier if not for the emergence in Chhattisgarh three years ago of a civil militia known as Salwa Judum, which means either "peace mission" or "collective hunt" depending on who's doing the translating. The movement's backers say it developed spontaneously when local villagers grew tired of the Naxalites' brutal mafia-like tactics. Chhattisgarh police then appointed thousands of young men, some of them still teenagers, as "special police officers," supplied them with weapons and pushed them to fight the Maoists. Human-rights groups say the special police officers use many of the same tactics...
...next Administration, it will be high time to increase our annual energy-research budget to $30 billion, which would make it at least comparable to what we spend on medical research each year at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And I propose, with the same sense of mission that gave rise to NASA and NIH, that we create a National Institutes of Sustainable Technology. A return to America's can-do attitude of the 1960s would help make the U.S. a winner in countless ways. We would help put a brake on our contribution to climate change, lower America...