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...addition to the artwork, there will be performances associated with the installation. On the afternoons of Oct. 20, 23 and 25, a theater troupe composed of homeless men and women from Bread and Jam, a homeless-run advocacy group, will perform. The plays will focus on the plight of the homeless in Harvard Square and Cambridge. Poets who are members of the Spare Change network will also perform. And students with performance ideas are welcome as well...
...Committee presented college administrators with “Dance at Harvard,” a proposal illustrating the plight of the dance community and requesting the addition to the season of a fifth main stage reserved for dance. According to Yamaguchi, who is a Steering Committee member, though administrators at first rejected the proposal, the matter may still be under consideration...
...help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab allies on whom the U.S. will rely heavily in the intelligence war on Bin laden face strong domestic resistance against working too closely with the U.S. - because of the perception among their citizens that Washington bears some responsibility for the plight of ordinary Palestinians and Iraqis. Just as it was for the first Bush administration during the Gulf War, pressing a reluctant Israeli government to negotiate with the Palestinians may be the price of Arab support...
When 16-year-old Rene Hernandez traveled from Cuba to the U.S. in the Mariel boatlift in 1980, his first hope was that he and his family would not drown or be attacked by sharks. Inspired by the plight of his father, a political prisoner, he decided to become a lawyer, although most people told him his English would never be good enough. But a corporate lawyer? That was even more farfetched. "Minority lawyers tend to shy away from the corporate world," Hernandez says. "We don't have the road map or the playbooks. And we feel corporations...
...desperately trying to be cool. "It's just so unhip to be talking about debt relief," says Bono, discussing his passion of the past few years. "The band has been really supportive about giving me the time to work on this." He first became interested in Africa's economic plight in the 1980s, after the Live Aid concerts that raised money for Ethiopian famine victims. "My wife Ali and I ended up going to Ethiopia for some time doing relief work. We were so high on the idea that Live Aid raised $100 million--and then you discover years later...