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...even mainstream liberals won't support a candidate who wants to end the war on drugs and create a Department of Peace. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman passed over him for chairman of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, which he was in line to take over. Even Shirley MacLaine, who has been friends with Kucinich since the '70s, sees how his party won't embrace him. "Maybe it's because he doesn't speak doublespeak and we're so used to seeing that as leadership," she says. "Or maybe it's because he's so short...
...ridiculous statistic saying that 18 and over shows are more dangerous, this just doesn’t make sense.” Mehigan, the City Hall spokeswoman, says that clubs with musical performances can seek prior approval from City Hall to have audiences under 21 after 11 p.m.Even so, Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a disc jockey for WHRB’s Record Hospital and outgoing president for the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll, says she feels that these restrictive measures have a significant negative impact on the music scene and other communities that frequent...
With the selection of Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust as Harvard’s next president, half of the Ivy League’s schools will now be led by women. If the Overseers approve Faust, she will join Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton University, Ruth J. Simmons of Brown University, and Amy Gutmann ’71 of University of Pennsylvania...
...Amahl and the Night Visitors, a Christmas opera he wrote for TV. He continued his efforts to democratize the art in 1958 by founding Italy's influential Spoleto Festival (and later its sister festival in Charleston, S.C.), which helped launch the careers of such artists as singer Shirley Verrett and dancers turned choreographers Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp...
...inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson's mother, Bahamian. One of the first mass movements of African Americans was led by a Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, in the '20s. An impressive number of black leaders and civil rights icons--Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, to list a few--were all first- or second-generation immigrants. Before them, West Indian leaders paved the way toward involvement with city politics, especially in New York. And this cosmopolitanism extended also to non-African peoples; Martin Luther King's engagement with...