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...hope is that dumping such stocks en masse will persuade companies to cease working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down...
When Giuliani sought to rein in free expression in Brooklyn, he lost—and was humiliated. When McCain sought to curb free speech nationwide, he won—and was lionized...
...cover story this week on the growing interest in American cooking, Sheraton gave free rein to her love of dining. She traveled to a dozen cities, sampling gastronomic delights in New Orleans, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boonville, Calif. There are occasional drawbacks, of course, even to a job as appetizing as Sheraton's. "You eat a lot of terrible food," she says, "and put up with a lot of miserable service." What makes it worse is that she can't com plain without jeopardizing her anonymity...
...days, as the world warily watched, the two men groped for some kind of human understanding, some way to master the nuclear riddle. Meeting face to face for the first time, Reagan and Gorbachev tried to set some rules to contain the arms race, some guidelines to rein in their rivalries...
What astonishes me is that Ted Turner and Boone Pickens and their ilk got free rein to pursue their nonproductive activities, while the antitrust zealots hounded American Telephone & Telegraph and broke up the best telephone system in the world. Emily Exner Chi Chapel Hill, N.C. Deficit Cure...