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With help from the 80,000 activists in Mumbai this week, the combined boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein...
...inevitable in schools that there are fewer whites in schools. There are less to go around. We can’t helicopter kids in from Utah or Vermont,” he said...
...ambitious Governor of another small state dismissed Iowa and its clumsy caucuses as a waste of time. "If you look at the caucuses system, they are dominated by the special interests in both parties, [and] the special interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people," Vermont's then governor Howard Dean said on an obscure Canadian public-affairs program. The caucuses can stretch on all night, Dean noted, and he expressed wonderment that average people would even bother with them: "I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about...
...vote turned out well for the ECAC, which days ago learned that the University of Vermont would become a member of Hockey East for the 2005-2006 season...
...rights that go with marriage? How much appeal will Dean have beyond Internet-cafe society and the liberal salons of the two coasts? As he stumped in South Carolina last week, Dean rarely missed an opportunity to introduce himself archly as a "guy from the North," "a Vermont Yankee" or "this environmentalist, Birkenstock-wearing guy from Vermont." The joke on himself is evidence of self-confidence, but he has yet to show how mass-market he can go. In a state where as much as half the Democratic electorate is likely to be African American, the crowds that showed...