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Harvard’s Black Students Association co-sponsored Friday’s vigil in Boston Common. And a collection of students calling themselves the Darfur Action Group are planning a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church on Nov. 18. The vigil will cap a week-long “awareness for action” campaign, in which organizers will distribute green ribbons to students and faculty who write letters to politicians and UN officials urging intervention in the Darfur crisis, according to Bec Hamilton, a joint-degree candidate at Harvard Law School and Kennedy School...
Perhaps the most widespread effect was the week-long damper the series put on students’ willingness to finish problem sets and pen essays...
Thankfully, this enchanting scenario remains the case most of the time. But the odds of a healthy start in life quickly begin to fall whenever a baby is born more than a few weeks shy of the typical 40-week-long pregnancy. Premature birth--by which doctors mean at least three weeks early--is the leading cause of developmental disability in children, including cerebral palsy and mental retardation, according to Dr. Eve Lackritz of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. It is also a significant cause of blindness, chronic lung problems and birth defects...
...Back then, after a week-long fast in 1976 on the chilly summit of Hobart's Mount Wellington to protest against the visit of an American nuclear warship, Brown had a growing profile in Tasmania as a slightly eccentric, shy but deeply earnest young man. At Liffey he tried to write philosophy and "put forward ideas for a better world," but spent many days on this same verandah, in his overcoat as the snow fell around the cottage, despairing "that it was all too much...
Instead the week-long series of events, run by the Office of Career Services, helps students answer more instrospective, career-related questions—summed up by the title of one of Tuesday’s talks: “What Do You Want to be When You Grow...