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...famous flair for amusing metaphor and clever one-liners—the legacy of decades leading church sermons, protest marches and political campaigns—kept Sharpton agile during a barrage of tough questions from his equally brash interviewer, with whom he joked during commercial breaks...
...that criticizes materialism and overconsumption. What the country needs, he says, is a day off. So he has organized the first National Take Back Your Time Day, scheduled for Oct. 24. The idea--really a nationwide version of the Ridgewood initiative--is for people to take time out to protest what de Graaf and his cohort see as "an epidemic of overwork and overscheduling threatening communities and families." Events ranging from forums on how to create a society that operates at a slower pace with fewer time pressures to parties extolling the virtues of a simplified life have been planned...
DIED. BEN METCALFE, 83, persistent, pestering early environmental activist who helped found a tiny protest group, the Don't Make a Wave Committee, that turned into Greenpeace, now an international organization with 3 million members; of a heart attack; on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...
...difficult relationship with her mother?no small hurdle in the Land of Women?and with pretty much everyone else. Namu spent years isolated in the mountains herding yaks with an uncle who never speaks. She jealously punishes her sister by feeding her a sausage of human feces to protest her sister's larger portions of meat. By the final pages of the book, Namu has beaten two people bloody, devastated a suitor, demolished a kitchen with an axe and fled her village with her mother flinging stones at her back. Through it all, she remains likable: you have to root...
Elizabeth K. Mahoney ’05 staged a solo counter-protest, holding a sign stating, “You do not speak for the Iraqi people. You do not speak...