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...attack in 2004 had stopped him from carrying out. This is his last stop on a tour of the country that has included Duke and the University of Chicago, and Achmat said he had no plans to return to the United States. Achmat’s speech at the Forum was the opening keynote in the International Development Conference this weekend, a student-run event now in its twelfth year...
...credibility. “In an issue of this kind, the magazine is not in a position to verify the accuracy of a statement from Coke or a statement from the protestors,” he wrote. “It is appropriate for the magazine to be a forum that presents the points of view of both parties to the dispute.”A FIZZING DEBATE?At Harvard, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is waging its own campaign against Coke, and the effort is gathering increased attention. Last week, SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky...
...vehicle for social change. “Art-making is never in a vacuum...If you intertwine certain things like social causes, political causes, and pride, [the message] comes across stronger than any PSA [public service announcement],” Johnson said. Students from the Black Mens Forum (BMF) and the Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa worked closely with members of the SMT staff to help fundraise and coordinate campus logistics. Student delegates from over 15 colleges across the nation—including Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota—participated...
...commend TIME for the forum of views on the Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have immediate relevance to our policy options in Iraq, it provides an important framework to evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered weighed the cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested them in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments...
...news that he was quitting. "I'm proud of the last 11 years of changing this country and, indeed, changing the world. Why would I feel bad about it?" DeLay first disclosed his plans to resign in a lengthy interview at his kitchen table in Sugar Land, Texas, a forum he chose because he wanted to lay out his thoughts in detail rather than try to break through the cacophony of a news conference. "I'm a realist, and I know politics," he said, referring to poll numbers showing he could lose his November re-election race. "There...