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...huge mobilization of students, raising our voices, coming together, and doing something on a broader scale. In the past, Harvard has really been a hotbed of activism. Harvard does have this name and the media does latch on to that. So if we’re going to stir stuff up, this is where we have a lot of leverage. If 500 Harvard kids get arrested for protesting the war, that will be on the national news, the world media. Nobody is trying to get arrested though...
Beyond simply rewarding teams, introducing a post-season tournament in the Ivies would stir up fan fervor across all eight campuses...
...potential for healing the divisions of the nation and moving us forward to a better day.” The junior Senator “points us toward what is possible to achieve if we can unite in common cause.” His very words stir us to action, to forget the sobering reality of recent experience, to believe that anything, no matter how impossible, is possible...
...Clinton campaign in Vermont, and Chelsea Clinton came to campaign on Friday. But Barack Obama is dominating the polls. "This is a state with a strong feminist tradition, but Obama's eating Hillary's lunch," says University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson. Obama created quite a stir when he visited the campus last year. "I've been here 40 years, and I've never seen a longer line to see a speaker," Nelson says...
...recently, the local newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her claws." Günther Fritz, Vaterland's editor-in-chief, says, "We're not a very patriotic people, but under pressure from Germany, everyone is banding together." Bankgeheimnis - bank secrecy - may not stir the human soul the way liberté, egalité, fraternité does, but it seems to work in Liechtenstein...