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...planner's dream: dams to harness central India's Narmada River. But Medha Patkar, a young, largely self-taught activist, was appalled by the price: huge amounts of land swamped, half a million villagers displaced and a lush river basin ruined. Leading hunger strikes, enduring beatings and vowing to drown herself in a flooded area, she got the World Bank to withdraw support of the key Sardar Sarovar dam and scared off investors from a second major dam. But the Indian government persists with the project, and Patkar fights...
...campaign's immediate aims include creating a cohesive, organized group of student and faculty activists and increasing the number of ethnic studies courses taught at Harvard...
This year, for the first time, HLS offered official continuing legal education online. One lecture and discussion series including this component was taught by HLS professor Terry Fisher, a co-director of the center. He taught a seven-week offering on intellectual property in cyberspace...
...Conley, professor of romance languages and literature, is involved with research in French literature and film studies. He taught Foreign Cultures 21: "Cinma et culture franaise, de 1896 nos jours" on French film theory in the fall, and is teaching several other classes in the Romance Languages and Literatures department this semester...
Reno had been planning for days for the possibility that she would have to go to Miami, look the family in the eye and demand that they obey the law. It was testimony to her nerve and to her confidence that her 15 years as a Miami prosecutor had taught her to handle the torrid politics of her hometown. And Reno, who has no children, sees herself as their special advocate. It still haunts her that within weeks of taking office in 1993, she relied on other people's advice in handling the standoff in Waco, Texas, which ended...