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...economies settle into overregulated mediocrity. Blair has the toughest sales job on the constitution, but he's not the only one. Even Chirac has resisted a referendum, though 74% of French people polled want one. Chirac apparently worries that a referendum could become a low-turnout vehicle for another protest vote. "The sad truth is, our politicians have done little to explain why various European reforms are productive and necessary," says Philippe Moreau-Defarges, senior fellow at the French Institute on Foreign Relations in Paris. "The average French voter has no idea what the proposed constitution is about." He thinks...
...three men - along with Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who was shot to death by their captors on April 14 - went to Iraq to work as security guards but were seized west of Baghdad. Italians obsessively followed every twist and turn in the crisis; in late April, when the captors demanded a protest against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's support for the war, some 5,000 people turned up at a rally organized by the hostages' families. Back in Iraq, the three captives knew nothing of that, though they assumed the videos taken of them eating nice meals would be used as propaganda...
Four Harvard students are arrested while participating in a protest at the Free Trades Area of America conference in Miami. They were observing the protest as part of the class before they decided to join...
...protesters, including one Harvard student, are arrested after a nude protest against animal cruelty in Harvard Square. The protest was part of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) “rather go naked than wear fur” campaign. One of those arrested was Dan Matthews (pictured at left), vice president of PETA, who had been invited to speak in Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation...
...final dramatic moment that matched the intensity with which this game was fought, Jones leapt out of his seat on the Bulldog bench, ran out on to the court to protest the non-call and was hit with a technical foul, effectively clinching the game for Harvard...