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...Roosevelt Anti-Terror Multi-Cap Fund (ABMGF) launched what it claimed was the world's first mutual fund in the "terror-free investing" category, screening out the stock of companies that do business in Iran, Libya, Syria, Sudan and North Korea. Its investment choices have been independently certified by the Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a private research provider that maintains a list of some 485 largely foreign-owned companies that includes South Korea's Hyundai, the French oil producer Total and France's BNP bank, among others...
...political campaigns and never come back. At the technical school, the target of the meeting was Tao Feng, the former chief accountant of our office. After several hours of speeches denouncing Shell and the ''running dogs of imperialism,'' Tao Feng was led into the room wearing a tall dunce cap made of white paper with COW'S DEMON AND SNAKE SPIRIT written on it. (In Chinese mythology, these are evil spirits that can assume human forms to do mischief. Mao had first used this expression during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to describe the intellectuals, many of whom were...
...seized the game’s first lead on a power-play strike from Brooke Thompson, but junior Laura Brady answered with her first goal of the season to tie the contest heading into the second intermission.Rookie Cori Bassett found the net with a mere two seconds remaining to cap off the scoring.Chu’s early helper made it 25 straight games with a point for the senior, including all 20 of her appearances this season.Christina Kessler made 11 saves in her sixth win of the year.HARVARD 8, UNION 1Sifers paced the Crimson with the first three-goal...
...been blown out by Columbia, but on this night, the game was close throughout and it would be Harvard that made the final play. After Big Red guard Louis Dale made one of two free throws with 8.6 seconds left to give his team a 64-63 lead and cap a 6-0 run, Crimson sophomore guard Drew Housman drove the ball up the court. With his main option, captain Jim Goffredo, covered, Housman went right and dished the ball to Harris, who converted the baseline layup. “We were running a double screen for Jimmy...
...through the counterattack that would be opened up. Now, as the troops begin to enter the theater, Republicans can ask whether the main effect of these merely symbolic resolutions isn't to undermine the chances of Americans succeeding and to encourage our enemies. Similarly, the idea of a legislated cap on troop strength had seemed a good way to show real commitment to the antiwar cause. Yet actually explaining why 137,000 troops in Iraq was fine but increasing the number to 160,000 should be prohibited-- when the new commander wanted those reinforcements and said they were necessary...