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...more information. According to “Mo,” the person whose phone number is listed on the flyer, the “literary society” part doesn’t mean anything—Alpha Delta Phi is just a regular fraternity. The nearby Brandeis chapter is responsible for the colonization effort. Alpha Delt, as it likes to call itself, already has a handful of members at Harvard among the junior and senior class, and now it’s looking for some sophomores to take up the mantle. It’s a little less...
...Giovanni Cipollini, who heads Pietrasanta's local pro-resistance association, said he had offered to put Lee in touch with partisans who were present, but that the director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...
...outside the debate hall watching by simulcast includes some unwelcome guests: the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klansmen won't be wearing robes or hoods or making "a big hoopla," says Imperial Wizard Richard Greene, 46, who refuses to divulge how many members the Mississippi chapter has. Nor will they take advantage of the designated protest zone outside the debate theater to stage one of their typical demonstrations - which include fiery speeches and a cross burning - for fear of causing riots. "We don't want anybody to get hurt," says Greene, who insists physical violence...
Mankiw kept the audience chuckling with cracks about his safe job as a tenured professor, references to Chapter 26 of his “favorite textbook,” and “the mafia approach” of forcing banks to increase their capital stock, in which he supposed that the Treasury Department might say to an ailing bank, “You have a really nice bank here—I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen...
...careful analysis reveals a darker picture for pro-choice advocates. In the end he finds only 12 states that would be likely to recognize a woman's right to an abortion if Roe went down, while pro-choice groups generally believe there are 20. The organization of the chapter on each state - its constitution, its law and legal cases, possible pro-choice arguments and rebuttals to those argument - is more obviously useful (as some the book's p.r. material suggests) as a "road map" for pro-lifers than their foes...