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...Socialist Alternative was just one of several socialist groups represented at Friday’s rally, which also drew members of the Workers’ Vanguard newspaper and the Revolutionary Worker magazine. Several people in the crowd said that the socialist presence might scare off some potentially interested moderates, but most of them maintained that the rally’s strongest point was its unification of many different groups behind a single cause...
...level, we wanted to hold Harvard accountable for being the only Ivy League school without a women’s center in front of the very prefrosh who they’re hoping to woo away from Yale, Brown, and Princeton. We certainly weren’t out to scare off women in the class of 2008—we emphasized that progress was in the air and that they should show up in September to further it. In the words of the Harvard Social Forum: So you got into this place. Now change...
...daily missives from debt collectors. One morning the general himself appeared?in military fatigues, frothing at the mouth?and threatened to put me in a coffin. He pulled out a pistol-shape package, brandished it, then drove away. Was it a gun? Or simply a last-ditch attempt to scare...
...standardized machines. By dealing direct, the company could build to order while paring inventory (now down to a mere three days). The boyish CEO will hand over day-to-day duties to his No. 2, Kevin Rollins, in July but will still be thinking of new ways to scare his competitors. "He's rare in the tech industry," says UBS Securities IT analyst Ben Reitzes. "He gets it." --By Cathy Booth Thomas
...imminent departure of Spanish troops from Iraq, Italy was now Washington 's closest ally on the Continent, an Iraqi mediator declared his remarks "inopportune" but said he understood the men were still alive. About 50 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq in the past month, as insurgents try to scare away contractors, aid workers and other civilians vital to reconstruction. There's no fixed pattern in how the captives are treated. A Swiss couple was released unharmed last week, but a Danish abductee was confirmed dead. Five unharmed Japanese hostages found their roughest ride...