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...crackdown against pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar, students gathered for a teach-in at the Student Organization Center at Hilles to spread awareness about the situation there. About 50 people attended the event Tuesday night, which followed last Friday’s demonstration in Harvard Square. The first speaker, Daw Aye Aye San, was an activist in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in 1988 amid a wave of student protests. She said that after being arrested, she was tortured for six days before being sent to prison. She said that one military officer told her, “You are like water...
...children's health care veto as they can, whether or not they can eventually turn enough Republicans to override it. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has insisted he will continue to send the bill back to Bush's desk without modifying it for wavering Republicans, though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left the door open for changes. If the President vetoes the bill a hundred times between now and the 2008 elections the Democrats can portray the G.O.P. as voting against sick poor kids. If the G.O.P. caves, they can declare themselves the champions of children's health care...
...lending practices. “If the Chinese are able to sustain the level of growth that they have experienced, [they] will liberalize and democratize, which does not mean that their liberal democracy will look like ours,” he added. The event’s other main speaker, Yasheng Huang, an associate professor of international management at MIT, contrasted developments in the Chinese economy during the 1980s and 1990s and praised the country’s private rural entrepreneurship, which he said has proved more successful than government-controlled urban development. Huang, a former Harvard Business School faculty...
...Part of that inner-Orange rift could stem from Tymoshenko's previous agreement to cede the Speakership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament, to Yushchenko's forces. Now, however, with former Speaker Volodymir Lytvyn's bloc having made it back into parliament, Tymoshenko might co-opt his tiny faction as a makeweight, and give him the speakership as a "balancing" force. However, with their dramatic neck-to-neck racing, Yanukovych still retains a chance to get ahead of Tymoshenko and finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also...
...Institute. “The Moynihan report, I think, did not get a fair hearing. For that reason, we organized this conference today,” said Douglass S. Massey, president of the AAPSS. Massey organized the event with Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson. The evening began with speaker James Q. Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination as the main culprits, Wilson...