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...When I was first arrested, I thought I was the only one,” says Jordan A.A. Bar Am ’04, who also participated in both the PSLM sit-in and the Miami protest. “I was so relieved to see Maddy. [Even in prison] she is always so amazingly chill...
...rebel,” Elfenbein insists, despite consistently putting herself at the center of campus controversy. Elfenbein does occasionally put down the protest signs for more typical college extracurriculars. She often works late into the night with The Advocate Features Board, she plays a mean game of Radcliffe rugby, and, in her junior year, she wrote a column for The Crimson about her meditations on Harvard life...
...first met Jianli over six years ago when we were students together at the Kennedy School of Government. Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was scheduled to speak on campus, and we met at the meeting of many Harvard students who were going to organize the protests against his visit. When President Jiang spoke on Nov. 1, 1997, it was the largest protest Harvard had seen since the Vietnam War, with over 4,000 protesters. Jianli spoke eloquently to the crowd about his love for China and what he witnessed in Tiananmen Square...
...this protest was a life-changing event. It inspired me to go to law school and study human rights. While my interests had strayed from China over the years, I could hardly have imagined that my work would come full circle...
...Prescott, under whose office the Planning Inspectorate falls, last month approved it anyway, saying that it would be "strongly in the national interest." Animal-rights groups have vowed to launch a legal appeal, and last week about 30 activists staged a noisy but good-humored demonstration in Cambridge to protest the decision to go ahead with the lab. "We will demonstrate against every brick that goes up," says Sofia Bains, 24, a fitness instructor and animal-rights activist. "Even if the building gets started, it will never get finished." The Cambridge lab dispute is just the latest front...