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...advocating for a number of issues,” said Sarah K. Howard ’07, who helped organize the protest. “But we are most strongly pushing for a women’s center and greater tenure for women and more diversification among the faculty...
...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
...unauthorized copies of the cast have surfaced, Morwood has drafted a letter asserting that the intellectual property rights to the bones, including casts, belong to the Jakarta Center for Archaeology, whose scientists are on his team. Morwood is seeking a senior figure from the center to sign the protest letter. By March 11, he'd found no one prepared to do so. The center's director, Toni Djubianto, says such action would only make matters worse. "It might light a fire," he says. "It might blow up." Unlike the fragile bones, the dispute is unlikely to be laid to rest...
Saturday takes place on a single day, Feb. 15, 2003, when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have filled the streets of London to protest the impending war in Iraq. Henry Perowne, the central character, is a prosperous and contented neurosurgeon. But his happiness is infringed by a persistent, low-intensity fear of a terrorist attack. The pros and cons of the Iraq invasion are among McEwan's concerns here; the son of a career officer in the British army, he says he was more opposed to the war than Perowne. "But I gave him my ambivalence about...
...aftermath of University President Lawerence H. Summers’ remarks about the innate differences between the sexes, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) has started a protest against what they see to be gender discrimination against female employees at Widener library...