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...return to Cambridge, after living in Connecticut for 30 years, is somewhat of a homecoming. Richard, born in Kent in southeastern England, studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Cambridge’s Newham College during the late ’60s. It was there that she participated in her most memorable form of protest, when in 1967 she jumped on Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s car to demonstrate against the Vietnam War, as she recounted to The Daily Telegraph...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Will These Cowboy Boots March West? | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...kind, only the most dramatic. The Viisage system is already deployed in some 70 casinos across the country, from Atlantic City to Los Vegas, to identify cheats and card counters. A similar system has been used for the past two years in a tough section of East London called Newham, where British police attribute a drop in crime to the 300 cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Snooper Bowl | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Today Ullah is affluent by immigrant standards. He earns $19,500 as an administrator for a manufacturer of security devices; on the side, he and his wife Nighat run two thriving shops, a grocery store and a clothing boutique, in the East London borough of Newham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Not My Home | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Despite an ankle injury that kept key runner Paula Newham out of the race, the women, now 2-0, managed to take six out of the first eight places on a relatively flat course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Women Harriers Easily Outdistance URI, Face Brown Saturday | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

...Workers Revolutionary Party (a minuscule Trotskyite group) candidate for Newham Northeast, a London working-class constituency, Comrade Vanessa faces a stiff four-way fight in the upcoming British general election against the incumbent Labor candidate and Tory and Marxist contenders. Although her victory chances are small, Vanessa is emphasizing what she calls "the real issue" of the campaign-"the oppression of workers by the ruling classes." As yet, however, she has not officially agreed with her party leader Gerry Healy's claim that British airfields are now being converted into concentration camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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