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Even Women Appealing for Change (WAC), a group of undergraduate women which shot to prominence last year with their boycott of Harvard's all-male final clubs, was barely heard...
...those of you who feel your lives are worthless without baseball (and I pity you if you fall into this category), at least form a boycott of opening day next season--whenever that might be. Fans were planning a strike this year, but the players started their walkout before the fans could get organized...
When Col. Moammar Khaddafi staged a coup in Libya in 1969, the United States determined that the new government would be favorable to oil interests, and actively encouraged Bechtel to continue its oil industry work there. In the 1970s, when the Arab boycott of Israel prompted legislation in Congress to punish companies that severed links with Israel to pander to Arab countries, Bechtel successfully lobbied against the proposed bill...
Such notions stirred not only predictable opposition from the Vatican but also an uproar in the Islamic world, where abortion is generally forbidden. Belatedly, conference supporters tried to fend off a Muslim boycott. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called his old friend King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing...
Among the many risks in this strategy is that Mitchell still has nowhere near 51 votes. If the majority leader tries to muscle a partisan bill through, it would take just six more Democrats to join Boren's boycott to hand Clinton a defeat. In fact, many of the swing-vote Democrats the White House considers crucial to this strategy told Time last week that it would end in failure. Several White House officials privately concede that a deal coming out of the Finance Committee is essential, at least to keeping reform from stalling completely. And some White House aides...