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Kitty Dukakis, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, and three recent emigres from the Soviet Union joined in the third annual write-a-thon for Soviet refuseniks yesterday on the steps of Widener Library...
...event, organized by Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, gathered signatures on roughly 1900 letters and about 1000 signatures on petitions on behalf of 13 Jews who have been denied permission to immigrate to the U.S. or Israel. Several scholars from Harvard and MIT also spoke at the write-a-thon...
Members of one of the families Dershowitz worked to release, the Gudava family, were at the write-a-thon to help publicize the plight of Soviet refuseniks...
...used to know a young girl named Hess Worsham who lived across the street at home. I heard on the national news that Hess one of the sorority sisters killed by a reckless driver during a walk-a-thon for the University of Mississippi. And I simply couldn't remember...
...gamble, and it paid off in a sellout. A year later, when he repeated the concert, Bostonians talked of his "traditional" Symphony Hall year-ender. Next season public television filmed the show. By this winter the year-ender had grown to a three- performance weekend exhaust-a-thon with Symphony Hall set up cabaret-style and tickets pegged up to $24.50. Rush followed what he calls a Club 47 format, an idea he worked out with Sykes. What it boils down to is not just a lot of guest talent but as much interaction as possible among the performers...