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Though I graduated this past spring, I have remained here in Cambridge very much engaged in politics. I am currently managing former Harvard undergraduate Carolina Johnson’s ‘04 campaign for State Representative here in the 25th Middlesex District (which includes all of Harvard University’s Cambridge campus). I have also remained in touch with my friends who are still active in the Harvard College Greens, and I even received an e-mail from the IOP inviting the Greens to co-sponsor an event about third parties this September. I was pleased...
...OVERTURNED. ON SNOWMOBILES in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks; in Cheyenne, Wyo. U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer termed the ban, adopted during the Clinton Administration but delayed by lawsuits from snowmobile manufacturers, a "prejudged, political" move that sought to exclude the vehicles from all national parks...
...accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath, Sistani's agent in the Baghdad shrine district of Khadimiya, "but that depends on what the Americans do." Iraq's Shi'ites, he says, "follow our marja. If he tells...
...banks, mutual-fund companies, pharmaceutical firms and the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.). In a civil suit filed in New York state court last week, Spitzer charged Marsh with a price-fixing and kickback scheme that inflated the cost of insurance for clients ranging from the Greenville County School District in South Carolina to companies like Fortune Brands. According to Spitzer, roughly $800 million of the $1.5 billion in net income Marsh earned last year came from those dicey commissions. The complaint says Marsh would sometimes promise business to one insurer but insist a competitor provide an inflated...
...returned from exile to advise Sistani. "It's at his fingertips." Sistani sees a steady stream of aides and agents based around the country as well as Iraqi leaders eager to court and consult him. Sheik Jameel al-Qurayshi, who represents Sistani in Baghdad's restive Sadr City district, visits the ayatullah at least once a week to discuss the fine points of Islamic practice and get political advice for handling his neighborhood. Sistani's declarations are succinct and to the point. "He makes no decision until he is totally clear he has come to the right conclusion," says Shahristani...