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Only days after the first students staged a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., Harvard graduate student Michael L. Walzer was there to cover the events for Dissent magazine. And just days after that, Walzer was back in Cambridge, organizing students at Harvard and...
In 2001, strong student organization was evidenced, when undergraduates staged a sit-in to urge the University to pay its employees a living wage. Silvers was involved in some of the negotiations between students and administrators as a third-party labor representative.
The arrests have forced the protesters to abandon their sit-in in the latest chapter in Hawaii's months-long "furlough Fridays" saga. Nearly 170,000 students statewide have been affected since the program began last October. There are four more Friday closures planned before the school year ends in...
If Chicago is the city of broad shoulders, Wichita is a city of low profiles, of taciturn factory workers and reticent billionaires. Did you know that a Wichita musician named Gage Brewer was the first to whang an electric guitar in concert? Of course you didn't. Or that the...
For the moment, however, troops have been asked to secure Islamabad and other "sensitive areas" in the event of violent clashes. "When the situation deteriorates, gets out of hand of police, paramilitary [troops], only then the army is deployed," Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the military's chief spokesman, told the...