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...scenes of young people blowing whistles, banging drums and handing out cough drops amid the throng of protesters in Kiev last week looked familiar, they should: student-led mass protests also followed disputed elections in Tbilisi last year and in Belgrade in 2000, and each time the opposition prevailed. At least one group has played a role in all three movements. Serbia's Otpor, or Resistance, the student organization that spearheaded the revolution that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, sent "trainers" to aid activists who helped unseat Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. And earlier this year, the group provided...
After five minutes of mindless wandering, I found the hordes of Parisian fashionistas with their mud-stained Manolos outside the Espace Ephemère.I entered slightly soaked and walked down the runway, passing a throng of cameramen surrounding Parisian it-girl Lou Doillon in her green chiffon and cowboy boots. Shuffled into the back standing area, I scanned the front row: Anna Wintour (Vogue), Patrick McCarthy (W), Suzy Menkes (IHT) and a veritable plethora of other journalists, buyers and celebrities...
...with the Ivy Champions banner above them and with a throng of Harvard students screaming on the sidelines, the numbers hardly mattered...
...with the Ivy Champions banner above them and with a throng of Harvard students screaming on the sidelines, the numbers hardly mattered...
...early Friday evening, a throng of excited academics (whom eager graduate students leading the sign-in recognized as the “top names in the field”) prepared for the first step in what organizers hope will be a long tradition of collaborative scholarship at Harvard...