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Perhaps this shift in the nature of activism speaks to the progress of pragmatism and compromise. Instead of mass militancy and invective, our generation appears inclined to dialogue and public service. While picketing may have waned in popularity as a tool of dissent, service groups within the Institute of Politics and the Philips Brooks House Association thrive today as they never have before...
That trend, he contended, reflects the lack of recent progress on multilateral nuclear treaties and their enforcement...
That lack of progress on multilateral treaties has been compounded by a lack of commitment to their enforcement, Gorbachev said...
...Class of 1967 entered Harvard ready and willing to shoulder the task of dismantling the apparatus of segregation and poverty in America. Barely a month later, President John F. Kennedy ’40, the country’s greatest symbol of youth, energy, and progress, was assassinated. The boldest politically minded students embarked on the sorts of adventures still cited today; the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sparked University Hall sit-ins disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in 1967 to demand...
...most heavily mined countries in the world after Columbia, Afghanistan has made progress eliminating this menacing legacy of conflict. All known stockpiles of landmines have been destroyed, and nearly 60% of the country has been painstakingly cleared by de-mining experts. A $80 million funding boost from Canada, announced yesterday, will set Afghanistan well on its way towards being mine-free...