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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With three days of workshops, panel discussions and speeches--including one tonight at the Kennedy School of Government--the week's planners are hoping to concentrate more on how students can actively combat racism, and not just recognize where it exists...
...past the Quad has been the object of a variety of landscape experiments. Two years ago, a Harvard artist set up half-buried, colored picnic tables. Last year, one artist suggested painting portions of the Quad's grass bright orange, but the plan drew widespread opposition and was never executed...
...women's long distance events, the Crimson placed highly. In the 3000-meter run, senior Jody Dushay (9:52.93) and freshman Ellen Villa (10:25.88) finished first and second, while the women's squad scored a victory in the one mile relay with a time...
Czechoslovakia's seething frustrations were rooted partly in a faltering economy. By East bloc standards, the country is relatively prosperous, with ample supplies of basic foodstuffs and fewer housing woes than its neighbors. But Czechoslovakia 50 years ago boasted one of Europe's strongest economies, and many residents compare their living standards not with those of East bloc neighbors but with those of the West. By that measure, Czechoslovaks concluded that their economy was backward...
Havel and his fellow intellectuals led Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution in part because no one else was prepared to. Purges following the 1968 invasion wiped out all potential reformers within the party, and a continued hard line kept any progressive new party figures from emerging. The government also used Czechoslovakia's relative prosperity to buy off the workers, who proved reluctant, if not downright timid, about demanding change. Last week the workers listened to men like Havel and agreed to join in. Said a truck driver: "They showed us not to be afraid." That coalition of intellectuals, students and workers...