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Here at Harvard, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) have been staging rallies and demonstrations for almost a year. Their last attempt to distribute leaflets in Mass Hall resulted in prompt eviction...
...quarter of a century. But the Clinton administration wasted no time slapping down the E.U. choice, asserting that Koch-Weser is a lightweight who lacks the leadership skills to run an organization that acts as the world's financial fire brigade. E.U. leaders call it an another attempt by the U.S. to control the global economy - American Stanley Fischer, the IMF's interim chief, is Koch-Weser's primary competitor for the post. But America is not the only Fischer fan - an unusual alliance of Arab and African countries has thrown its weight behind Fischer's candidacy...
...while this is Narayanamurti's second attempt to bring entrepreneurship to the college campus, the schools involved are very different...
Down 5-1, Maine was looking to surge off of Nelson's goal, but the Crimson responded, not allowing Maine another solid attempt on goal until the third period, when Raffi Wolfe hit a slapshot from just inside the blue line that slipped just over goaltender Alison Kuusisto's glove hand. Kuusisto had come in for starter Crystal Springer at the start of the second period...
Phone calls from Bush polling operations appear to have been attacks masquerading as opinion surveys--so-called push polls. These calls distorted McCain's record--exaggerating his role in the Keating Five savings and loan scandal, for example--in an attempt to push voters away from him. Though the Bush campaign claims only 300 of the calls were made in South Carolina, Bush's Michigan pollster, Fred Steeper, told TIME last week that his firm had placed several thousand such calls in his state. Steeper says he has stopped making the calls...