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...city, taking in every nook and cranny of its involved history, from the 9th century confrontation of "Wilfred the Hairy" and "Charles the Bald" to the Postmodernist affectations of today's Catalan renaissance (the Olympic Village for this summer's Games, Hughes notes, was named after a Utopian socialist scheme of the last century that fizzled disastrously). In the Middle Ages, Catalan was probably more spoken around the Mediterranean than French, Italian or Spanish, and the Catalan empire had consulates in 126 places; later Barcelona was the home of the first submarine and the world capital of anarchism. Discoursing with...
Sergei Krikalev got more than he bargained for when he rocketed into space last May from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what was then still known as the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Krikalev was scheduled for a five-month stint as flight engineer aboard the Mir space station; his replacement was slated to arrive in October. Who could have foreseen that Krikalev's country would disintegrate before his mission was over? By the time October rolled around, the Baikonur facility was on the verge of belonging to Kazakhstan , rather than the Soviet Union. As a public relations measure, space-program...
...March 8, Mercia Andrews, the national organizer for the South African Workers' Organization for Socialist Action (WOSA), spoke at Harvard. An article in The Crimson described Andrews as a "white South African" (March 9). Apparently, The Crimson reporter guessed Andrews' race judging from her skin color, but Andrews is not white. She is officially classified by the South African government as Black and referred several times during her talk to Black South Africans...
...addition, The Crimson made no mention of the organizations sponsoring the meeting--Inroads: Harvard's Socialist Forum, Boston Socialist Action, The Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, the W.E.B. Du Boise Institute, the Afro-American Studies Department and others. Some mention of those who worked to build the event would have been appreciated. Tom Garvey '92 Alejandro Reuss '92 Editors, Inroads Magazine
...reporting error, The Crimson--in a March 9 article, described Mercia Andrews, the national organizer of the South African Workers' Organization for Socialist Action, as a "white South African." She is Black. The Crimson regrets this error...