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This discourse between hip-hop and academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good...
...instant disqualifier for someone in a position to shape U.S. policy. David DeFreese Hillsborough, New Jersey, U.S. Actor Richard Gere's article on the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, was inspiring, informative and motivating. We should all be concerned with the plight of Tibet. We must protest the oppression of Tibet and its people at the hands of the Chinese. The U.S. government should impose sanctions on China. Gere's description of the Dalai Lama warmed my heart and calmed my spirit. I pray his exile will soon end. Mary M. Revis Dayton, Ohio, U.S. One hundred...
...group then walked to Mass. Hall where a police officer dressed in riot gear stood at the front of the building. Protest organizers also spoke about Karen O’Brien, a Harvard employee and a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) representative, alleging that Harvard was engaging in union-busting through threatening and intimidating actions towards O’Brien...
...interview after the protest, Murphy said that he hoped that the protest would “get the university to focus on how important this is to workers...
...Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden that Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat...