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...Usmani: One of the other tactics HAWC discussed at the beginning of the year was what we saw as a failure of anti-war activism in past years. It didn’t seem like we were doing a good job of bringing the war home and making it pertinent to Harvard students’ realities. So what we decided to do this year was investigate Harvard’s own investments in relation to the war and push a divestment campaign of some sort. We found significant investments in the war that the Harvard Corporation has. For various reasons...
...faculty in those times [during the Vietnam War] were vehemently opposed, and explicitly so, to anti-war activism. This created an opposition. On a lot of campuses, police, things like that were brought in. This was one of them. And they beat students. Students that were otherwise depoliticized saw that. That exploded campuses across the nation, including ours. Students saw the forces of the status quo holding us down and keeping us quiet...
...White Plains?! They don’t pass anyone.” I ignored the wise words of my fellow driving-impaired friends, and psyched myself up for the big day.Sure, maybe they haven’t passed anyone...yet, I thought. Just wait until they saw my driving skills. I sat in the car, waiting for the woman from the DMV to climb in. “It’s freezing in here. Turn off the AC.”“Oh, okay, I’m sorry.” I fumbled with the temperature...
...matter how many facts show that the surge is successful on a basic statistical sense, Iraqis are still fine with the killing of American troops, and if this is true, the surge just isn’t working.” But the Republicans said they saw things differently, describing the military success of the surge as a necessary step to achieving political stability in Iraq. “Most certainly the surge has worked in cutting sectarian violence down,” Feng said, calling the Democrats’ suggestion for multinational diplomacy to stabilize Iraq...
...saw in the college arena, Harvard began it and lots of schools now are making much more financial aid available,” he said. “Ultimately, this can only help put more people in the public sector...