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Elswit lives near scruffy MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. She fits the profile of the eager young progressive: her tastes run to mountain climbing, experimental art and the Buddhist religious scholar Thich Nhat Nanh. But she's no flake. Elswit is the closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Profiles in Protest | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

Because the tribe's ancestors lived in Kansas in the 19th century, it had little trouble persuading the BIA to place in trust an abandoned Masonic temple next to an Indian cemetery in downtown Kansas City, Kans., just across the street from city hall. That makes the old lodge and the small parcel around it eligible for Indian gaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indian Casinos: Who Gets The Money? | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...York Times called it “terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer,” and Seventeen magazine featured her alongside Josh Hartnett and Venus Williams as one of Seventeen Voices for a New World. She’s also appeared in numerous plays put on by downtown Manhattan luminaries, though she claims to not know...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part II | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...teaming up, the Houses took a step up in location. The Leverett-Lowell-Winthrop formal took place in the swanky Bay Tower Room, 33 floors above downtown Boston. Recent Lowell formals had taken place in-House and at the Cambridge Marriot and the Tremont Hotel in Boston...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HoCos Fete Their Students in Threes | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

...Jahjah claims he tried to calm angry Muslims, who rioted for two nights. The police arrested him, saying he was responsible for the fighting, but an Antwerp court ruled last week that there was insufficient evidence to hold him. Two days after his release, Abou Jahjah relaxes in the downtown Antwerp apartment of his lieutenant, 26-year-old Ahmed Azzuz. In jeans, navy blue sweater and socks, he looks like a graduate student taking a study break. He says he dreams of a pan-European coalition of Arab Muslims with the power to force European governments to reckon with Islamic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces Of Islam | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

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