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Since the 1960s, he has helped the populations of Nigeria, India, Thailand, Zaire and the United States combat communicable disease. Eradicating smallpox and coordinating relief for local populations have been two of his lifelong professional goals...
...nearly two years, Oppenheimer (along with Moon Duchin '97) was The Crimson's posterchild of gay activism. Oppenheimer's shaved head and black combat gear--and his affinity for biting quotations--made him conspicuous on this carefully-groomed, moderate campus...
...role of women in the military was one of the President's main initiatives, and in dealing with it I had to maneuver around a lot of tough issues including the combat prohibition," says Gorelick, referring to the armed services' ban on allowing women to serve in combat zones...
...Bronze Star for bravery in combat against the Germans in the last days of the Second World War. But in 1990, back on his feet and out of the taxi, Mack wrote an article for Harvard Magazine that began: "I didn't know tough until I drove a cab in New York City...
DIED. VIRGILIO BARCO, 75, Colombian President whose social reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...