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Harvard’s athletic facilities remain quiet most weekends during the summer months—but this past weekend, the bleachers were packed with spectators, the tracks were busy with runners, and the courts were abuzz with competition...
...year, Bishop had shot six of her colleagues and killed three, prompting authorities to reopen the case of her brother's death. Bishop had originally told the police investigating the incident that she had accidentally shot him, and the case—ruled as an accident—fell quiet for more than two decades...
...would be wiser to listen to President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country...
Power urged the graduates-to-be to avoid “selling out,” or engaging in work that requires them to check their hearts at the door. She said consciences are never quiet for long, and that when one’s inner values start to “gnaw” and say “This is the only life you have!” it is time to “make yourselves vulnerable again” and change paths...
...according to Damon A. Silvers ’86, one of the leaders of SASC, the committee was dormant in the early 80s during a period of relative quiet in South African resistance. As the situation in South Africa became increasingly dire, however, student support for the end of violence in South African grew rapidly...