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...walking outside Fenway Park yesterday who tried to give Red Sox fans a guilt trip with his sign that chided, "How quickly we forget." How could I, as a self-respecting individual, crawl back to my unfaithful baseball lover without so much as even one day of a boycott...
Priest, then, is no Going My Way. And Good Friday was perhaps not the ideal day for Miramax Films to schedule Priest for wide release. Small wonder that a few of the faithful were miffed. The Catholic League threatened a boycott of Miramax's owner, the Walt Disney Co., before Miramax moved the date back. Disney hardly needs the aggravation; last week it told Miramax that the studio could not distribute Kids, a scalding and graphic film about an HIV-positive teen. If Kids receives a proscriptive nc-17 rating, Miramax may be obliged to sell the film (with...
Dodgers fans Jimmy Sweeney and Stuart Rawitt have gone online to organize a baseball boycott. Their for-profit organization -- Baseball Fans On Strike -- just established anInternet sitefor ordering a $20 membership kit, T-shirts, and baseball caps with the organization's logo. Members who pledge to boycott all 1995 major league baseball games get a newsletter, a travel gift certificate and a bumper sticker. Sweeney told TIME Daily that the boycott is for the entire season, even if thestrikeends, because he is angry that it has lasted so long. "We're boycotting regardless of who is playing," Sweeney said...
...Clinton Administration began a new push for a global boycott of Libyan oil in an effort to force President Mummar Gadhafi to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families...
Sarah Winters '95, co-chair of Women Appealing For Change (WAC), in a succinct statement which captures the moral poverty, intellectual bankruptcy and overall vacuity of that entire enterprise, told Harvard Magazine that last year's boycott of the final clubs was intended to make "the men think about their reasons behind wanting women there [at club parties]," and would not be repeated this year. However, Winters continued, "for some women the boycott was a difficult thing and many women were unwilling to give up two years of final club parties...