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...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...
...democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...
...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...
...very poor, no shoes, no clothes—I left the old country with short pants with a thousand patches,” he says. His first—and lasting—impression of Harvard and the people that populate the Square...
...Pull Up the People,” the album’s first proper track, makes mincemeat of Ali’s famed boxing boast, as butterfly-crushing bass hits gently buzz underneath the sugary stings of a thousand sonic bees. On “Bingo,” steel drums and swaying low end are joined during the chorus by gnashing, squelching keys that make you really want to “hit a six,” whatever that means...