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...coalition of unions, environmental groups, faith-based and human-rights networks, family farmers and consumers. We knew this confrontation between civil society and corporate rule was going to be exciting when we went to the Ruckus Society's direct-action camp in September and learned how to scale overpasses, hang banners and get busted. We knew it was going to be big when we joined the AFL-CIO in planning sessions to mobilize workers from all over the U.S., and when local politicians participated in our critique of so-called free trade...
...used to like to hang back a little and then put his magnificent red self into gear, as he did in winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. In the Belmont, only four other horses challenged. So Big Red raced history. He entered the far turn seven lengths in front and exited 20 to the good. And then he turned it loose for the adoring mob. At the finish he was 31 lengths in front. The 2:24 set a world record for 1 1/2 miles and a new standard for equine fame...
...those successes hang in the balance this weekend in Albany, N.Y. One loss could transform a regular season of triumphs into a year of failed expectations...
...best friend’s sister—currently a senior in Winthrop House—Jake W. Hannon ’06 wrote a letter to the housing office requesting not to be placed in the Quad, which is right around the corner from all of his childhood hang-outs...
...outcome of processes and decisions taken months, even years earlier. Historians seeking to explain the war will certainly debate the relative importance of a number of decisions and events over the past decade: the first Bush administration's reluctance to overthrow Saddam in 1991; Saddam's determination to hang onto those of his chemical and biological weapons he'd managed to keep out of the inspectors' hands in the early '90s; the failure of sanctions, covert coup attempts and a 1998 bombing campaign to dislodge the regime; the slow breakup of the Gulf War coalition as much of Europe...