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...event drew nearly 40 Harvard undergraduates who were asked to call Kimberly-Clark executives and Cambridge’s congressional representatives. At the end of the event, a group of 21 students joined the event organizers for a photo, clad in Harvard sweatshirts and posing behind a large Greenpeace banner. The Greenpeace campaign was an effort to use current Harvard students to pressure Marc J. Shapiro ’69, a member of the Kimberly-Clark Board of Directors, and Ken A. Strassner, the company’s vice-president for Environment and Energy, to make Kimberly-Clark use environmentally...
...grace. Few Sunnis say they support the terrorist atrocities that are perpetrated daily by followers of al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, but many still regard attacks against U.S. and Iraqi troops as legitimate resistance. At the Abu Hanifa mosque, the most prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad, a banner hangs from the clock tower calling on worshippers to pray in the name of Muhammad, imam of the mujahedin. Over the door to the main prayer hall, another banner paraphrases the Koran, exhorting God to deliver the faithful from the infidels--a not-so-subtle call to drive U.S. troops...
That same summer in 1970, Patriots ownership finally opened a “suitable” stadium in Foxboro. The team was rechristened under the pan-Bostonian banner of New England. And over thirty years later, the Gillette Stadium of today was born...
This year HDAG and GIF together will launch a nationwide anti-genocide constituency under the new banner of the Genocide Intervention Network. The constituency will be a group of people who collectively declare that genocide is an issue important enough to determine their voting habits and their political donations. By recruiting new members into this constituency and giving them the tools to pressure their representatives, we will finally create the political incentive for politicians to prevent and halt genocide. Knowing that hundreds or thousands of such dues-paying members are living and voting in each member’s district...
...commentators, particularly those interested in Internet business, have lauded this trend: these “hybrid” models with some paid-for and some free content provide real potential for revenue generation, and do so far more reliably than the iffy model of supporting web sites entirely with banner advertisements or pop-up windows. That a powerful and widely-read newspaper such as the New York Times would try something daring like bet on the willingness of the average ‘net-goer’ to pay for their opinions on politics speaks volumes for progress made...