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When George Bush and Gordon Brown held their first joint press conference last summer, there seemed to be little chemistry between the two leaders. How times have changed. A visit to London and Belfast by the President on June 15-16, the finale of his week-long European tour, showed just how much common ground he shares with the British Prime Minister...
...Admittedly, in the case of the European press and George Bush, who started a week-long five-nation visit to Europe on June 9, such generosity will not be easily granted. Bush could discover an unexpected love for cricket, announce that he and Laura were planning to vacation on the Côte d'Azur, declare that his most fervent wish was to march in Berlin's Love Parade, and it would do him no good. For many Europeans, no matter how hard he tries, Bush will always be considered an ignorant, incurious cowboy. He was and is, they think...
...arrested members were Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09, Robert J. Ross ’09, Amary K. Wiggin ’09, and Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour. Twenty Harvard students have been traveling since Saturday on a week-long trip up and down the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits from enlisting in the armed services. The group met with Maine Senator Susan M. Collins, a moderate...
...place where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard?...
Twenty Harvard students have been traveling since Saturday on a week-long trip up and down the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits from enlisting in the armed services...