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Cloaked in the black robes of the Grim Reaper, members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) joined a crowd of thousands outside of Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel last night to denounce President Bush as he arrived for a fundraiser...
...members concentrated their efforts against Bush’s policies on generic AIDS medication and pharmaceutical companies by dressing as Grim Reapers...
...especially concerned, in recent weeks, to ensure that if Israel does withdraw from Gaza, the resulting power vacuum is not filled by Hamas. But rather than weaken the movement's political authority on the streets of Gaza, the slaying of Yassin may actually have strengthened it. And that's grim news for any hope that the near-moribund Palestinian Authority could be revived in order to take charge of Gaza's security in the wake of Israel's planned departure. An estimated 200,000 people - almost one fifth of Gaza's population - reportedly turned out on the streets for Sheikh...
...week looking for survivors in the scorched and twisted compartments of a commuter train at Madrid's El Pozo del Tio Raimundo station. When he came across an unremarkable sports bag, he assumed it belonged to one of the victims and put it aside; at some point amid the grim triage, the bag was taken to a local police station, where it was added to a mountain of unclaimed personal possessions--purses, briefcases, shoes, coats, laptop computers. In the chaotic aftermath of the Madrid bomb attacks, no one thought to open...
...have had an inkling of what was to come on Friday inside a crammed but quiet courtroom in lower Manhattan. The most serious charge against her, securities fraud, had been thrown out the previous week. But four counts remained--obstruction, conspiracy and two charges of making false statements. Stewart, grim-faced and dressed in her ritual uniform, a dark pantsuit, sat and showed no emotion as Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum repeated the word guilty four times. Her daughter Alexis, 38, who had sat behind her throughout the trial, dropped her head into her hands and remained motionless for several minutes...