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...Usmani: In years past, the peace walk was viewed as a group of older Cambridge residents foreign to our campus and to our student body walking around in Harvard Yard. The intentions of them are exactly what we’ve been talking about: politicizing campus. This is why the peace walks are in the middle of the Yard, at the middle of day, and the middle of week. The intention is to bring politics to what is normally viewed as an apolitical space at an apolitical time—at a time of learning and not of politics...
...wonder if it’s worth it to invest their time. A lot of Harvard students say, “Yeah, I’m opposed to the war but does the fact that I’m coming out on a rainy Wednesday to support a peace walk matter at all?” In some ways, Harvard students are too mature for their own good. Perhaps students have lost a bit of the idealism that has characterized previous generations and is what college students of the ’60s and ’70s have criticized...
...elements of restraint, specifically in the strategy of silence in the weekly peace walk through the Yard, reflect HAWC’s aims...
...places with dubious human rights records such as Sudan and Zimbabwe; and it serves as a ready "mind your own business" rebuttal to critics of Beijing's own internal policies in places such as Tibet. But as China grows more powerful, its leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to walk this laissez-faire diplomatic line. Beijing has gone along with the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to Sudan's troubled Darfur province, and is even providing some troops of its own. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao recently called for democracy in Burma, another country with close ties to the Chinese government...
...would cost Nepal about $1.5 million in climbing fees-peanuts compared with the tens of millions in aid and loans that Beijing gives Nepal. "It basically shows how much influence the Chinese government has here,? says Tibetan activist Tashi Dhundup, 32, who lives in Nepal. We can't even walk outside the Chinese embassy without getting clubbed about...