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Nine congressional candidates, a candidate for lieutenant governor, a city councillor, the vice mayor, a half-dozen members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) and several representatives of the Painters and Allied Trades Union descended on the Yard last Thursday to protest a Harvard contractor they say is opposing its workers' efforts to unionize...
Sourani, who has been imprisoned a half-dozen times by Israeli authorities and was detained by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 after criticizing military courts, is one of the most respected human rights advocates in the occupied territories and Israel...
...received close to a half-dozen messages and inquiries every day since her research was first publicized in late April. She answers some, and forwards others to her adviser Peter Weyand, a research associate in biology. The pace, she says, has been "just insane...
...statue's right side, a strange scene begins to unfold: I spot a curious-looking old man on the approach. He's wearing a disheveled shirt and tie under a new-looking waterproof jacket, lugging a plastic bag full of garbage satchel-style over his shoulder and holding a half-dozen copies of the Gazette in his other hand. He's plodding steadily toward the statue and as he makes his way past it--get a load of this--he salutes...
...make a trip over to The Crimson's event in the Loker commons at 10:45 on Saturday night, and soon I'm talking to a half-dozen prospective members of the class of 2002. Once I identify myself as a Crimson reporter, they crowd around me like some sort of deity--it gets to the point that another few people join our circle, drawn over by the size of the crowd. "What's going on here?" a late-arrival asks upon entering the group, as if worried that he's missed the beginning of some crucial, unlisted pre-frosh...