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...talking to my sister, and she said at 12 p.m. the whole of Kathmandu rang bells to protest against the Maoist insurgents, using children in war, giving them guns to fight for them...
...sees no problem with its corrupt policies. This situation brings with it some amount of irony, since in 1996, Harvard came to the forefront of the pro-democracy boycott of Burmese products, when it cancelled a million-dollar contract with PepsiCo, then operating in Burma. Harvard’s protest led not only to PepsiCo’s withdrawal from Burma, but the precedent it created also encouraged many major U.S.-owned corporations to follow suit. In light of Harvard’s previous support for democracy and human rights in Burma, it is astounding that HMNH—which...
...popular class titled “Shop ’til You Drop.” An English tutorial close reads Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City, while the African American Studies department offers courses in hip-hop, and English 178x, “American Protest Literature,” studies Tupac Shakur. Vin Diesel is cited as a “Byronic Hero” in British Romantic Poetry, and Linguistics professor Alice Jardine explores why we “Like Ike” but “Love Lucy” in her class...
...club under male pseudonyms. Although most of the members happily welcomed the women, the mood was not universal. The club steward, upon noticing the entrance of the women, proceeded to lock himself—and the food for the party—into an upstairs room in protest...
Year after year and protest after protest have been belabored by an apparent contradiction—many female students curse their own exclusion while simultaneously frequenting the club parties nonetheless. But Fair Harvard maintains a much more fundamental contradiction. Despite boasting a reputation for nurturing the future leaders of the world, and despite decades of controversy and frustration, this great University has done nothing but perpetuate an embarrassingly discriminatory social atmosphere. So we find ourselves where we are today, where even those enlightened club members who realize that change might be warranted are too busy enjoying their three years...