Word: shantytown
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That spring, students built a shantytown in front of University Hall which stayed up for several months, through Commencement. Pro-divestment alumni succeeded in electing Gay W. Seidman '78, a former Crimson president and a supporter of divestment, to the Board of Overseers...
MICHAEL JACKSON spent only six hours in the Santa Marta shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, but the visit made headlines for weeks. First a judge temporarily barred his film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have...
Many Michiganders thought he would soon be unemployed himself. In the fall after his welfare move, two homeless men whose payments had been cut lit a fire for warmth in an abandoned house and asphyxiated. An "Englerville" shantytown sprouted in front of the state capital. Engler was widely described as mean; his own pollster put his approval rating...
...most significant divestment protest, however, did not occur until April 1986, when 200 students built a shantytown and a 16-foot ivory tower in the Yard...
...angry; I want them to get up and do something," he says. This goal sometimes causes TV Nation to veer from satire toward simpleminded didacticism. At the end of a NAFTA segment in which Moore visits American plants that have shifted operations to Mexico, the camera pans over a shantytown. In his narration Moore bemoans the fact that U.S. leaders said NAFTA "would build a better life for all Mexicans." Did anyone ever say that decades of poverty would be eradicated within eight months of the passage of a trade agreement...