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...silent protest was HDAG’s first major event for the year. The group, which is the Harvard chapter of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), was founded in 2003, the same year the conflict in Darfur erupted. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 9 news article "Students Protest Sudan Investment" gave an outdated name for the national advocacy group STAND. It is known as "A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition," not "Students Taking Action Now: Darfur...
...announcement on Iraqi troop levels on Oct. 8, the day MPs finally returned to work after a long recess. The green benches of the Commons, often sparsely populated, were crammed, with well-upholstered MPs spilling into each others laps and those too slow to claim their seats forced to stand to listen to Brown's plans. "Let me affirm," Brown told them, "as I told [Iraqi] Prime Minister Maliki last week, and as I have agreed with President Bush and our other allies, we will meet our obligations, honor our commitments and discharge our duties to the international community...
...stand in solidarity with people risking their lives for what we consider basic rights,” Rushing told the crowd...
...term provoked: as Sarkozy returned from New York with assurances that "there are no austerity plans" for France, Fillon found himself obliged to explain his use of "bankrupt" as glib and non-literal. A French public groggy with weeks of bad economic news seemed to doubt Fillon's stand-down, Sarkozy's promises, and either man's ability to turn things around quickly. Both suffered almost immediate dips of support in polls...