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...conservative causes that required grassroots rallies, sit-ins, or fasting. Conservatives tend not to talk in terms of “revolutions.” In the sixties, while the hyper-liberal Students for Democratic Society were storming the halls of the nation’s universities, their right-wing counterparts were trying to get good old boys like Barry Goldwater elected. The reason for that sort of discrepancy is largely that conservative values tend to be associated with traditionalism, and most forms of conservative reform can occur easily within a governmental framework. Typically, therefore, activism does not go hand...
...dancers as well. They convinced her to audition for a piece in a fall recital (given by the Dance Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard, or OFA) that would be set by guest choreographer Sean Curran. After casting Koch, Curran took her under his wing and convinced her not to give up dance.And it’s lucky for Harvard that she didn’t. Koch is this year’s recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize, which is awarded annually by the OFA to a “Harvard undergrad who has demonstrated...
...Alem?n, despite his millions, comes from a humble background. And he has nothing but disdain for the right-wing reform efforts of Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre, a Harvard-educated, U.S.-backed former banker who he refers...
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe headed to Washington this week, hoping to contain the fallout from an ever-widening scandal linking some of his closest allies to right-wing paramilitaries - a scandal that is threatening a key free-trade agreeement and future military aid from...
...payments to protect its employees. "We believe they saved people's lives," he said. However, during the time Chiquita was making the payments, thousands of people across Colombia died at the hands of the AUC, which expanded its power. In the banana belt alone between 1997 and 2004, right-wing paramilitaries are blamed for 22 massacres in which 137 people were killed, according to government figures...