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...tens of thousands, some bearing posters depicting the jubilant face of Boris Yeltsin, others holding placards demanding the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev. By noon on a chilly Sunday, more than 200,000 people filled the vastness of Manezh Square outside the crenellated walls of the Kremlin. As a speaker shouted out resolutions, the crowd voted overwhelmingly for authorities to stop persecuting Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic, and for Gorbachev to resign as Soviet President. Addressing the throng, Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov asked, "Do we trust the leadership of the country?" The crowd roared back...
...Dee’s significance was not lost on students in attendance. Andrew C. Coles ’09 said after the event that he was “blown away” by Dee. “She’s a very powerful and moving speaker. You could see it in her face and her eyes,” he said. “It was worth coming out,” he added. The Harvard Foundation Humanitarian award was inaugurated in 1984 as a way to recognize those individuals who commit themselves to improving humanity and advancing...
Despite the risks, it remains relatively easy to be a shock jock, as there exists on the airwaves such a fertile market for peddling prejudice—the more bilious, the better. Every day, millions of Americans gather with guilty grins around the speaker, waiting for the next slur to slide out. The audience doesn’t ever have to echo these views in civil society, only to smirk in silent complicity when they are voiced in the comfort of their sedan...
...can’t hope to fully integrate its participants on a social level. Woodbridge has answered this need through a staggering gamut of social events, including its monthly cultural food party “Baraza” (Swahilli for “open house”), a speaker series, a winter formal, and the Society’s trademark party, “Fiesta Mondiale,” each spring. “My sort of leadership perception was that it should be really social,” outgoing Woodbridge President Karolis Balciunas ’08 says...
...relied on her faith and returned to Columbine that fall for her senior year, becoming a peer counselor. When she enrolled in college, she initially pursued her ambition to teach. But soon she decided that she could make a difference among young people in another way, and became a speaker and author. In her book Marked for Life, she writes about how Columbine became a pivotal point in her life, and she has been invited to speak at schools around the world about the tragedy...