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Jones was rescued from his plight by friend and Mercury Records producer Irvin Green, who hired him as Director of Artists and Repertoire in 1961. Three years later, Jones became a vice president, becoming the first black to assume an executive position on a major record label...
...bring more attention to the plight of Africans killed while opposing Portuguese colonial rule, about 50 members of PALC and the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro) planted 500 black crosses in Harvard Yard March...
...plight of the refugees has raised disturbing questions about Kabila's intentions. Is he in control of his forces and therefore ordering revenge attacks on the Hutu, or is he a weak leader unable to prevent them? Says State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns: "We will hold Kabila responsible for the conduct of his own soldiers." Uganda's Museveni has been telling Kabila he was "spoiling" his reputation by treating the refugees so cruelly...
...September 1993 Harbury went on a hunger strike outside the Polytecnica, the Guatemalan equivalent of the Pentagon, to draw attention to Everardo's plight...
...current production at the Leverett Old Library seeks to place the audience in that very same position: in the empty room that constitutes the show's set, the two characters seem to be speaking not only to each other, but to an audience who can sympathize with their confused plight. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are always waiting for someone important--Hamlet, Claudius, or Polonius--to tell them what to do. In the meantime, their playful banter gives audience members much to think and laugh about while waiting for something to happen...