Word: student
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...student leaders may have individual faults. Some are immature, unprepared for individual fame and responsibility, unschooled in the ways of Western pressure politics and international initiatives. The movement for democracy in China is not yet clearly defined as a result. It is growing, though, gaining experience and acceptance as people like Lawrence Sullivan and Oscar Hsu (to name only two of the many deserving mention) take up the banner, gaining depth from the historical perspective of men like Liu Binyan. It continues, however, to get its driving energy from students, like Liu Yan, Wuer Kaixi and Shen Tong, who love...
Jonathan Dresner is a first-year graduate student studying Japanese history in the History Department...
Toward the end of the issue are six letters to the editor. One points out the omission of coverage of black student activists in an article on the student strike of 1969; it addresses fellow alumnae and alumni in calling for the increased role of Blacks in Harvard and Radcliffe histories...
...battle cry of all raiders is to "maximize shareholder value," but few of them blew the trumpets like Edelman. In 1987 he taught a business course at Columbia University that he aptly dubbed "The Art of War." Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman...
Before Jakes could fashion a response, events exploded. On Friday, Nov. 17, Prague riot police cracked down on student demonstrators. With his authority rapidly crumbling, Jakes launched a last-minute bid to crush the uprising. Advised by Czechoslovakia's military that it would take no part in a violent action against the populace, Jakes turned in desperation to the People's Militia, units composed mostly of factory workers that function in effect as the Communist Party's private army. Beginning Nov. 19, militia units were deployed at factory gates and inside industrial compounds around the country. Care was taken...