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When local feminists like Emily Hall, a board member of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women and a staffer in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences registrar’s office, found out about the anti-abortion demonstration earlier this month, they organized their own counter-protest...
...think you should get out of stocks; when the market puts shares on the bargain counter, logic dictates that you should buy, not sell. On the other hand, this is an ideal time to make sure your portfolio is protected against the next Enrons and Tycos...
...Marcos' reign, many in Mindanao were sick of the government and sided with the NPA?even when it sent hit squads, called "Sparrow Units," to assassinate policemen and soldiers in Davao. But the Sparrows got cocky and started bumping off suspected informants and civilians. As a counter, a vigilante group called Alsa Masa emerged in the mid-'80s, armed in part by the military and set on wiping out local communists. The vigilantes were popular until they too ran amok. A mini civil war erupted. One notably violent area called Agdao was rechristened "Nicar-agdao...
...When officials in both countries hailed the arrests as a model for partnership in the war on terrorism, it was more than mutual back slapping. In breaking up an active al Qaeda sleeper cell, Moroccan authorities working with American counterparts staged one of the most successful counter-terrorism operations since Sept. 11. And besides preventing a possibly deadly al Qaeda attack, the police work revealed important - and disturbing - insights into how Osama bin Laden's operatives are regrouping for new terror operations despite their rout in Afghanistan. Moroccan sources describe the suspects as killers hardened by battles in Afghanistan...
...heat is Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. After vowing to get tough with the Burmese and drugs, lately he's lately been preaching a more tolerant line. When Burma protested over Thai army exercises near the border last month, Thaksin's government halted them, and told soldiers to counter incursions by firing blanks. Tensions between the Thai government and its military are so palpable that, according to local press reports, Thaksin endured a chewing-out last week by Chief Privy Councillor Prem Tinsulanonda. Thaksin's intentions have been called into question because his company, Shin Corporation, has signed an agreement...