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...November 1999 with one aim: to close down HLS. The group has identified and harassed HLS executives, employees, shareholders, suppliers and partners through telephone, fax and e-mail onslaughts. The SHAC attackers scream "murderer," "pervert" and "torturer" during demonstrations outside HLS's gates. They beat drums and screech on plastic whistles at "home demos" (protests outside the residences of company directors and employees). They mount "invasions" of firms doing business with HLS and industry conferences attended by representatives of HLS and its affiliates. In early 2002, in an attempt to protect the identity of its shareholders, HLS moved its headquarters...
...protestors lambasted President Bush—and Harvard—for not doing enough in the fight against AIDS, winds whipped away many of the 85 white plastic boards dressed in red ribbons that the group had constructed to symbolize the 8,500 people who die from AIDS every...
Here's the basic setup: you've been captured by a demented movie director who plops you down in an abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
...forced to sell his house to pay off some of the card companies, but he still owed $113,000. A few weeks ago, he decided to break the pattern that had precipitated his financial ruin. He took scissors to his credit cards but seems reluctant to part with the plastic shards?they rest in a trash can in a dusty basement office from which Choi, a father of two, sells bowling balls online while waiting for the next round of creditors to call. "It wasn't easy to cut up the cards," sighs Choi, as if recalling a traumatic love...
...getting more outspoken. They don't see the same amount of risk in making anti-Semitic statements." 9.30 P.M., SUNDAY NIKAIA, GREECE Iftikhar Aslam came to Greece from Pakistan three years ago on a student visa. He soon had to give up his studies to work at a plastic factory to send money home. On the night of Nov. 9, he was walking home from evening prayers through this working-class suburb of Athens with five friends. "We were passing through a local square, and these everyday-looking guys were standing there shouting 'Bloody Pakis' and other abuse," he says...