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"I'm getting me some new sneakers," Rivers told the Globe this week, "because I'm gonna find that [expletive]."
The Pentecostal minister, however, says he already has an idea who may have attacked him. The shooting, which made Rivers the lead story on local newscasts and a front page item in the Boston Globe, was retaliation for his anti-drug crusade, he says.
But much of the minister's work at Harvard has focused on getting the campus more in touch with problems in surrounding communities. Last year, Rivers organized a discussion of the responsibility of Black intellectuals at the Kennedy School.
Rivers' fighting spirit is still felt at the College. Since his graduation, he has been an adviser to student activists and something of a gadfly whenever he feels that Harvard is not moving fast enough to improve race relations.
Rivers has been particularly critical of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III's handling of campus race relations, though the two men reportedly remain friends.