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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Until then, campus activists will wage fruitless campaigns. They’ll pass out flyers and wear ribbons and march on the Yard, but to no avail. And they will likely ignore these words of caution, as they are convinced of the righteousness of their causes. Many protestors like to quote Frederick Douglass, who once said that those who want freedom without agitation “want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” But point out that these protests don’t make so much as a splash, and campus activists seem...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Crimson in the Streets | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...hanging on to a 29-28 lead, a kill by junior Kenneth Stambaugh gave the first set to the home team.“I think that they serve the ball really well,” Nathan said. “As a unit, we didn’t pass particularly well, so that definitely was a contributing factor.”While struggles to pass and establish an offensive presence would prove to be the Achilles’ heel for Harvard throughout the game, it was the superb serving from Rutgers-Newark that would be the story...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Fails To Lock Up Outright Title | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...rule was not supposed to come into effect until the next day, the majority of the gathered press had no doubt that Schabowski's statement meant the end of the Berlin Wall. The news quickly spread and brought thousands of people to the border crossings where they demanded to pass. The border guards eventually gave in. (See TIME's cover story on the wall's fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin Wall: Was the Fall Engineered by the GDR? | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...company cannot mount a furious comeback against both the economy and more well-financed and adroit competitors from Asia. GM is so close to being put into Chapter 11, effectively at the hands of the federal government, that its offer of equity-for-debt will probably by-pass the powerful committee that represents the firm's bondholders in negotiations. The company has made the correct calculation that it is out of time and that good manners won't pave the way to an agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for What's Left of GM Gets Meaner | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass an electoral law that gives the indigenous more legislative seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plot to Kill Bolivia's Leftist President? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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