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While the Big Red cited its inability to convert, Harvard celebrated its own big-time stops...
...reason the Palestinian flag was excluded, alternatively, has much to do with what the flag symbolizes. The Palestinian flag is the official symbol of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a ruthless organization that has committed atrocities worldwide against both Israeli and American targets. Attempts to convert terrorists into diplomats failed tremendously; the Palestinian Authority, after refusing the 2000 peace offer from Israel, proceeded to send over 100 suicide bombers into Israeli civilian areas claiming the lives of over 850 individuals. As a result, a Palestine is now further away than it has ever been...
...life in 1990 as Sports International Inc., owner of Ohio's Columbus Thunderbolts arena-football team. That lasted only a year. The team was sold in 1991, and Sports International transformed into Startec, hoping to cash in on the technology boom. Among its announced ventures was a plan to convert tires to energy. That didn't turn out either, but somewhere along the line, Startec latched onto a synthetic-fuel process that other companies would license...
Stronach plans to convert each old track into a mini-Vegas with shopping, live entertainment and, most important, "racinos," or racetrack casinos, that fatten purses and improve race quality. But MEC has met an old problem--the hostile statehouse. Racinos are legal in just seven states, and other industries, like hotels, won't let lawmakers legislate slots at tracks at their expense. "Why save racing?" asks Robert Goodman, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of The Luck Business. "The car companies are struggling--does that mean we should put slot machines in showrooms...
...East African embassies, the U.S.S. Cole and finally the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—in an effort to wake the proverbial sleeping giant. It is logical to speculate that bin Laden was counting on a violent U.S. military response to convert the Arab masses to his cause and facilitate political upheaval in the Gulf States...