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Greenspan said he was able to quickly write a program that automatically sought out these files and use it to download the contact information of several thousand Harvard students...
...Butchie, who put up the $25,000 for the movie and received producer credit (as "Lou Perry"), was volubly apprehensive about Damiano's new starlet. Lovelace subsequently explained "why Butchie was so critical of me. It wasn't that I might ruin his film or cost him twenty-five thousand. I might make him look bad in front of Daddy...
...Bush tried to “shock and awe” the Iraqi people, a thousand students walked out of their classes to protest the President’s action. They joined 4,000 protesters in Harvard Yard and hundreds of thousands across the country. This action was only the first in what became a growing trend; the past two years have seen a huge rise in student participation in politics. Students canvassed for presidential candidates, donated to political campaigns, and came out and voted in record numbers during the 2004 election. During that election, students also developed an increasingly...
...turns out not everybody has this reaction—two thousand Bostonians rallied against the war last Sunday. But despite the die-in staged by Harvard students outside the Science Center on Friday, I can’t help feeling that the activist spirit that pervaded Harvard two years ago has died. We as a school, and maybe as a generation, have gone back to our day jobs. We’ve lost that spark of anger that led us (literally) out of our classrooms and into the streets. We’ve lost that sense of hope that made...
...will be fixing Social Security. Yet history has not, and never will, “end” anymore than it did during the 19th century’s “Hundred Years Peace” or during the “Pax Romana” almost two thousand years ago. New challenges, ideologies, leaders, and foes inevitably arise from the shadows...