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...nonviolence methods, Vietnam radicalized Perkins. Just as he was about to join Black Power, Perkins said, he had a change of heart and got married instead. The marriage lasted 30 pleasant years; when it ended, he said, he turned to alcoholism. Now he lived among Birmingham’s vast homeless population, at that moment some of the only people outdoors...
...Curson, director of health studies at Sydney's Macquarie University. NIPAC says the supply is sufficient to protect up to a million of the country's essential service workers for about six weeks. The grim conclusion is that for the duration of a pandemic beginning any time soon, the vast majority of Australians won't see an antiviral tablet...
...arsenal - at least, according to the international panel appointed to oversee IRA disarmament. On Monday in Belfast, retired Canadian General John de Chastelain finally delivered the report he'd been waiting eight years to make: his international panel had spent the previous week observing the IRA decommission a vast array of weaponry, everything from a World War II-vintage machine gun to surface-to-air missiles. Using British and Irish intelligence reports on IRA arms as a guide, the general concluded that he had witnessed the disposal of the IRA's entire arsenal...
...others argue that “social space” set aside for women (though not exclusively, since that wouldn’t fly with Harvard’s discrimination policies) is necessary because all-male final clubs control the vast majority of purely social space at Harvard. What they don’t take into account is that this space is privately financed. The College should not be pressured to help fix a social space gap for which it is not responsible. Of course, there’s a larger problem, too. Not nearly one-quarter...
...help in this complicated endeavor, a page should be added to the already excellent Harvard Libraries e-resources website explaining the many ways TFs and professors can use the vast resources Harvard already owns to lower costs for its students. Course heads shouldn’t have to rely on anecdotes for cost-cutting tips...