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...addition to the one-hour rally the Boston common, protesters gathered for a 90-minute address and prayer service at the Arlington Church. Boston University Professor of Political Science emeritus Howard Zinn spoke while members of the Islamic and Jewish clergy officiated...
...Rhine; on the way home, his plane crashed and he was killed. Art Bonifas, near the end of his tour, took a group out one day in 1976 to prune a poplar in the DMZ; the North Koreans set upon them and killed him. In Vietnam, Ron Zinn, twice an Olympic race walker, went out on patrol ahead of his unit and stepped on a mine. Bob Fuellhart was advising a Vietnamese battalion; while word was being sent up from the rear that his daughter had just been born, word was being sent back that he had been killed. Cemeteries...
...pressures. However, I believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on an individual level, through exposure to ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott...
...Universities turn people out who will take their place in society, do their job and not make trouble," said Zinn...
...Zinn and Chomsky are unknown to many students at Harvard, and that is unfortunate," he said, "if only for the sake of intellectual debate...