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...This isn't the last takeover that Harvard has seen, though. In 2001, several dozen students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest low wages for janitors and dining hall and maintenance workers. Faced with a tense budget situation again this time around, the Student Labor Action Movement appears to be gearing up—handing President Faust a letter at a recent lunch meeting in Eliot. But there's a long way to go between envelopes and building takeovers...
...your own special New York City weekend." Or perhaps you would prefer lunch in Washington with consultants turned cable pundits James Carville and Paul Begala, "where you will get to tour all the amazing sights D.C. has to offer and who knows what else could happen!" And if politics isn't really your thing, well, there's always the third option: "You and a guest will watch live as the American Idol judges make their final comments and decisions on this year's most anticipated season finale!" (See pictures of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail...
...surprisingly, many Clinton allies are decidedly unsympathetic to Penn's situation. Fumes one: "He should have to eat it." But it isn't that simple. The money is owed not to Penn personally but to his company, which is a subsidiary of the worldwide public relations and advertising firm WPP Group, based in London. The bills the Clinton campaign ran up included $5 million for the polling that apparently failed to pick up on the public mood. And then there was the cost of sending out 20 million pieces of direct mail, with postage alone reaching $8 million, according...
...anyway a hazardous profession, what with rough seas and accidents and homicide. Now this piracy and criminalization of sea lanes ..." he says, adding, "It's crazy out there. There'll be hundreds of big and small boats, and it's impossible to tell who's a pirate and who isn...
...contrast to the summit in Mar del Plata, Chávez isn't expected to hold the regional reins in Port of Spain or breathe the same anti-U.S. fire. More moderate leftists like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are regarded as Latin America's standard bearers today. Even if the global economic crisis has borne out Chávez's condemnation of capitalism, it has also sent oil prices plummeting - and his populist largesse along with them. At the same time, some supporters worry that as Chávez accumulates more power at home...