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...INDICATORS Lining Up The Soldiers Aircraftmaker Groupe Dassault will boost its stake in Socpresse, owner of periodicals such as Le Figaro, from 30% to 80%. The move strengthens ties between the French media and defense industry; Lagardère, owner of magazine powerhouse Hachette, has a 15% stake in defense concern EADS...
Almost one year to the day the ECAC championship slipped through the skates of Harvard’s icemen on a draw play, here they were again at Pepsi Arena, lining up with about 30 seconds remaining and the league title at stake...
Whether we like it or not, we are all tied to this conflict in tangible ways. As members of the Harvard community, we are inadvertently benefiting from the other war going on in Iraq, the struggle between international investors and corporations to stake out their piece of the Iraqi economy, which has been entirely restructured by the United States in the course of the occupation. The United States has made it possible for Iraqi resources and banks to be owned and operated entirely by private contractors from every country other than Iraq itself...
...shirts read like the jerseys at Catholic Youth Organization basketball games, infused with a sense of sportsmanship as a reminder of the greater values at stake both on and off the court...
...houses and force the families off ancestral land is a big no-no. What we're seeing is that because of harsh government action, a lot of tribesmen who couldn't care less about giving sanctuary to Zawahiri or anyone else are feeling that their honor is now at stake, and that they have to defend...