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...heart of a university could be. Harvard has its own famous example; the University Hall takeover by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in spring 1969, the first and most violent of the building seizures on campus during the Vietnam era. Other takeovers followed, including a weeklong occupation of Mass. Hall in April 1972 by students protesting the University's investments in Angola...
...After a weeklong delay, the Undergraduate Council completed its elections this weekend, and welcomed 81 members to this year's council...
There's been too much shame, too much pain and too much hiding, said Sally E. Smith, executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. NAAFA sponsored a weeklong August convention, and is now sending volunteers into schools to educate against taunting and discrimination. Smith says it's time for fat people to get out of the house, stand proudly among the Kate Mosses of the world and maybe even offer the poor birds something...
...dollar--and the region hiccuped with pain. The cheap yen was a strong signal to investors who were betting that Asia has farther down to go before it takes any steps up. On international markets, it was the yen slip that triggered the attack against the HKD. During a weeklong run-and-gun battle between speculators and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the peg remained firm. (The HKD is pegged to the U.S. dollar at a ratio of 7.8 to 1.) A defiant Joseph Yam, head of the HKMA, vowed in the press conference, "I am going to hit them...
PAMPLONA, Spain: Hemingway's favorite festival, the weeklong drinking-and-bullfighting binge known as San Fermin, has claimed yet more victims. One man died Thursday when he plunged off a wall; another is in serious condition after a bull trampled on his head; a third was gored in the leg by a bull that had rid himself of his rubber horn protectors. Add to that the casualty list of head and jaw injuries earlier in the week, and you have one of the bloodiest San Fermins since -- well, since the last life was claimed...