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...them now are prickly halos of hair that surround several centimeters of split, swollen scalp. The 40-year-old postal clerk and member of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions was among the first to arrive last month outside the governor's office in downtown Bulawayo for a peaceful protest against Zimbabwe's high taxes and cost of living. Several dozen demonstrators had barely begun to gather when police charged the crowd. Khumalo received two cracks to the head before police officers dragged him by his dreadlocks for nearly a kilometer, until they reached a police station where they thrashed...
...frequent interviews with congressmen becomes a show in itself; to measure by the expressions of adoration he gives these stars, one would never guess Hoffman was an established actor with intelligent roles under his belt. He gapes in agreement as Susan Sarandon reveals that “seeing kids protest [the WTO] makes me well up and get sentimental,” and becomes as giddy as a 13-year-old girl at the prospect of speaking with the Reverend Jesse Jackson for five minutes. At times Hoffman even seems concerningly unaware of his interviewees’ backgrounds and ideologies...
Despite the attention Hoffman gives to outspoken Hollywood faces, it’s the passing comments in The Last Party which make the greatest impact. Newt Gingrich’s straight-faced, calm statement of no objection to political protest remains in memory longer than Hoffman’s headachingly long documentation of the Florida voting scandal. Leitch treats Gingrich’s comment as emblematic of a politician who understands the political system and, without resigning himself to views not his own, faces up to the reality of what some voters need to hear. On the other hand, Massachusetts...
Calling the protest a “Tour of Shame,” the group marched from Holyoke Center to 1280 Mass. Ave., a building rented by Harvard that organizers said was being cleaned by non-union janitors, and then to Adams House...
Yesterday’s protest was conducted without incident, monitored by the Harvard University Police Department...