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Hoping to organize protest against the military action in Iraq and against Sen. John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) vote in favor of the Senate’s Iraq resolution earlier this month, Cambridge activist Randall C. Forsberg mounted a write-in senatorial campaign Wednesday...
...Josh Silver, a bank-lending activist, recently refinanced his home in the Washington area, and while his $300 monthly savings pleased him, errors in his closing documents sent him into a rage. There was a $400 overcharge for property-tax and homeowner's-insurance escrow. The bank "forgot" a $200 credit promised to him when he signed up for automatic debit payments. And at closing, he was asked to sign off on an insurance policy to pay his mortgage should he die - the cost of which had been written into his settlement papers...
...Waco was nothin' compared to Colorado City," an antipolygamy activist says, while the Branch Davidian compound burns. Independent gubernatorial candidate Richard Mahoney suggests Republican Matt Salmon cannot crack down on the town's polygamist sect because he is Mormon...
...conducting a criminal inquiry into Sabena. His probe is based on three separate suits filed by former workers. Details of his investigation and the suits themselves are confidential, and no charges have yet been filed. But the plaintiffs have handed over evidence they say indicates criminal wrongdoing. Union activist Philippe Doyen has made especially explosive allegations, which he says he'll substantiate in court. Last month, Van Espen raided Airbus headquarters in Toulouse and took away documents. An Airbus spokesman says the company doesn't comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew...
...biggest thing that I see [in Harvard students] is the marriage of academic work and activist work,” he says. “If I just do one or the other, I feel like something’s missing...