Word: movement
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Student groups participating include the National Champion Women's Hockey Team, the Chinese Students Association, the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, the Juggling Club, the South Asian Association, and many more. Pforzheimer, Kirkland, and Leverett House Committees will also be putting on events...
...described the figure of Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement, saying that her moral witness shamed people--she stood behind something that was morally right without expecting a tangible reward...
...described the figure of Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement, saying that her moral witness shamed people-she stood behind something that was morally right without expecting a tangible reward...
What has become of this movement? We have certainly put more money into the system: Education spending has leapfrogged from $162 billion in 1982 to $300 billion in 1998. Yet despite this talk about "investing more in education," the money has simply gone down the drain. Scores from the National Assessment of Education Progress have remained flat throughout the decade. The Third International Math and Science Study conducted last month reported that American high school seniors placed 19th out of 21 nations in math and 16th out of 21 in science. Our advanced students did even worse, scoring dead last...
Where do you go when you need someone to rally 200 million people? An ex-President, perhaps, or a former dictator? Whenever the environmental movement needs someone to gather the troops worldwide, it turns to a tall, understated activist who rides his bicycle to work, wears flannel shirts and has a unique ability to herd the masses toward a common goal. His name is Denis Hayes, but you can call him Mr. Earth Day. He launched the first one in April 1970, turned it into a global festival for Earth Day 1990 and is looking ahead to the biggest...