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...more sedate Ivy League has also ben a hotbed of protest this past year. After an ethnic studies rally of more than 400 students at Columbia University, 22 students were arrested by police in riot gear after they took over Low Library and Hamilton Hall, the school's most vital academic and administrative buildings, for several days...
...Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...
...doctors hovering everywhere now. Various Senators, led by Pete Domenici, Al D'Amato and Ted Stevens, began meeting privately weeks ago to figure out how to help. Part of the problem, they realized, was that Dole had no one with him on his plane who could read him the riot act. He had lots of staff but no peers. That was fixed by rotating the designated adult on the plane. "You need someone who can focus his attention on what he ought to be saying," said a Republican Senator's aide, "and can look him in the eye when...
...Lakers need Magic, so does Los Angeles, which has seen a devastating earthquake, a riot and the O.J. Simpson trial since Johnson left what Laker fans used to call Showtime. The Forum was sold out for Johnson's return for only the second time all season. The No. 1 Laker fan, Nicholson, was in Miami making a movie, but there were other luminaries: Rob Lowe, Jon Lovitz, Christopher Darden. When Magic came out for warmups, the crowd was on its feet, and when the p.a. system pumped up Randy Newman's old anthem I Love L.A., the crowd shouted...
...nominee for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...