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...version of this same political scenario before. Antisemitism was the common coin of Europe from the end of the 19th century to the end of World War II, reaching from France in the west, through Germany and Central Europe, to Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Hannah Arendt identified antisemitism as the common denominator of fascism and communism, but it also inspired many nationalist parties, until Hitler channeled its energy to consolidate the Third Reich. The use of the Jews as a political target was symptomatic of a fear of democracy in all its aspectsindividual rights, a competitive economy, and the freedoms...
...Tuesday’s tragedy, and give support to friends and family left behind. Those who have suffered a direct personal loss from the attacks are among those who stress the need to protect all innocent life, and this is our second principle: the sanctity of human life everywhere. Third, members of the Harvard community stand united against racism and are committed to protecting civil liberties in America, especially those of the country’s sizable Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities, who have already suffered atrocious attacks. The fourth point is to seek alternatives to President George...
...gives so quietly, his donations flew under the media radar for decades. But that changed a few years ago when he gave $3 million to fund research leading to an affordable treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Third World countries. Researchers wanted White to get his due, so they thanked him in a footnote in a Harvard Medical School report. His cover was blown. "People who want their names on buildings are not the kind of people who buy millions of dollars of medicine for the poor," observes Dr. Paul Farmer, whose groundbreaking work led to the TB treatment...
...after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power to move, to persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs. It is music that reaches people's hearts and souls." When music is muzzled, an outlet for self-expression is lost...
...images may have faded, but Bono's curiosity did not. In 1999, the singer got involved with Jubilee 2000, now known as Drop the Debt, a London-based coalition of academics and activists who equated Third World debt with slavery. In the course of his work with the campaign Bono has met with Presidents, Prime Ministers and the Pope to get attention for the issue. He relishes the incongruity of a rock star talking about world policy, but he backs it up by knowing his stuff. He reads economics tomes and did some unofficial studying at Harvard. "I think that...