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...received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...
...Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress, agrees. "A second supplier could be greater assurance of a steady supply of goods, even if one site were disrupted by a strike, natural disaster, bankruptcy or terrorist attack," GAO investigators wrote...
...leaders of the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—will have an unprecedented opportunity to reassume their positions at Harvard’s helm; Bok as interim president, and Knowles as interim dean of FAS.“They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, you can’t sell the same piece of real estate twice, and that there are no second acts,” said Peter J. Gomes, minister of the Memorial Church and a scholar of the Harvard presidency. “I think all of those are untrue...
...editors: Re: “Long, Hot Summer Flicks,” arts, May 4. “The Da Vinci Code” was premiered in Cannes, France on Wednesday. We have been treated to delightful stories of Christians planning boycotts, disruptions of screenings, and even hunger strikes. Right now, there is a protest being staged in Boston Commons over it. Apparently the protesters are taking offense to the fact that the plot claims that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and had kids. I am a Roman Catholic. I was an alter boy. I play the organ regularly for church...
...Countless other Indian medical workers who have gone on strike this week feel much the same as Sen, which is why India's sudden battle over affirmative action makes the ongoing divide in the U.S. over racial preferences seem tame by comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that...