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		<title><![CDATA[A Very Busy Season for Shareholder Activists]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1143]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It is shaping up as a very busy season for shareholder activism, in part because of investor disgust with the lack of management oversight of lending practices that led to the current sub prime and credit crisis.    So far this year, shareholders have put forward 1,106 proposals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:53:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seeger: A &#39;Power&#39; in music, politics]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200802/ai_n24328344]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than half a century, Pete Seeger has been an icon's icon, a source of inspiration to rock stars and socially conscious artists of all stripes. But don't try to tell him that.     "I'm 88 years old, losing my sight and my hearing," Seeger says....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An alternative vision of librarianship: James Danky and the sociocultural politics of collection development]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1387/is_3_56/ai_n24354385]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-development practices. Danky's belief in the value of alternative periodicals--and the lengths that he went to identify and acquire them--may be interpreted as a rejection of increasingly mechanical...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate Governance and the New Hedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5847/is_200707/ai_n23804722]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds are not "normal" institutional investors. They launch proxy fights for corporate control. Their recent successes and "wolf pack" tactics have garnered headlines, but leave us with a question: what does hedge fund activism mean for corporate governance in the United States? This Article undertakes a legal, empirical, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hedge Fund Investor Activism And Takeovers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314657]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006. Abnormal returns surrounding investor activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not detectably different from zero for targets that remain...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shareholder activism: is it here to stay?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200706/ai_n25174342]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Tony Cole    Jun 21, 2007 (Keeping Good Companies - ABIX via COMTEX) --  Australian superannuation funds have a lot to gain from shareholder  activism. Activism takes resources, so in order for super funds to  remain within the confines of the "sole purpose" rule,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20070609/ai_n19290731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[JUDICIAL ACTIVISM?    Ginsburg's dissent followed letter of the law    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires persons who wish to file suit for sexual discrimination in the workplace to file a charge with the EEOC within 180 days "after the alleged...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brazil Breaks Merck Drug Patent in Major Victory for AIDS Activism, Says AHF.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5570/is_200705/ai_n23620902]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, May 4 /PRNewswire/ --    LOS ANGELES, May 4 /PRNewswire/ --  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An unusual suspect: often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WMX/is_5_24/ai_n19052935]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Wang Zheng wastes no words when it comes to discussing the person she most admires, a 91-year-old Chinese-American revolutionary activist whose life's work Wang includes in her University of Michigan courses.  Wang says she knew very little about Dr. Grace Lee Boggs before the latter participated in an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Work begins on David Brower building]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070406/ai_n19000381]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BERKELEY -- To some, it might seem ironic that a multimillion- dollar building complex -- not a park or a mountain -- will memorialize one of the country's foremost environmental leaders, David Brower.    But like Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and a leader in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Work begins on Berkeley's Brower building]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070404/ai_n18787315]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BERKELEY -- To some, it might seem ironic that a multimillion- dollar building complex -- not a park or a mountain -- will memorialize one of the country's foremost environmental leaders, David Brower.    But like Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and a leader in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Critic's corner]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200704/ai_n18772212]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[*Well, here we are: another season finale of Prison Break (Fox, tonight, 8 ET/PT), and Michael Wentworth Miller is racing against yet another clock to rescue his brother. Say this for Michael: He's loyal, if not exactly competent.     *PBS' American Experience examines one of our country's...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[World Jewish Congress on Death of MK Yuri Shtern]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200701/ai_n21887559]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Shai Franklin of World Jewish Congress, +1-212-755-5770 NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of Yuri Shtern, a Member of Knesset and a leader of the Jewish people. In over 30 years of community and political activism -- in the Soviet...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consultants have to adapt to a brave new world.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200610/ai_n17476168]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Leon Gettler    Oct 25, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Companies have to  consult with all stakeholders in the changing world.  Ann Svendsen, of  Simon Fraser University in Canada, sees the new process as the  "co-creative" stakeholder engagement model. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amanda Congdon Videoblogs Across America ; AmandaAcrossAmerica.ComWill Feature Interviews, Blogging, Video Highlighting Citizen Mediaand Environmental Activism]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200609/ai_n21878690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: National DeskContact: Adam J. Segal, 202-756-2252, 202-422-4673 cell, adam@the2050group.comor Lisa Harrison, 310-248-3049, both for Amanda CongdonWASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Actress and pioneering videoblogger Amanda Congdon announced her latest project, AmandaAcrossAmerica.com, where she and a group of friends will travel across country to her new home in Los...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lance Bass in sync with 'Racer' Reichen]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200607/ai_n16600115]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Former 'N Sync singer Lance Bass, 27, has announced that he is gay and in a "very stable" relationship with The Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32.  The former boy-band star knew "from childhood on" that he was gay, he tells People magazine, which arrives on stands Friday. After...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politics of Criminal Justice: How the New Right Regime Shaped the Rehnquist Court's Criminal Justice Jurisprudence, The]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_200606/ai_n16618978]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION In 1968, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon pledged to appoint conservative, strict constructionist judges to the federal courts.1 In the view of many New Right Republicans, the Warren Court had formed an activist partnership with liberal Democrats to liberalize broad swaths of American social policy.2 They were not wrong;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New proxy ammo: Citing risks to stock price; Activists gain clout by focusing on the perils of poor disclosure.(News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4798/is_200605/ai_n17422588]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Sara Hansard       WASHINGTON - Shareholder activists have a new trick up their  sleeves for getting public companies to agree to their demands.       By highlighting the potential damage to a company's stock as a  result of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UC Davis Graduate School of Management Study Finds Institutional Activism Improves Shareholder Value, Despite Occasional Missteps]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_April_18/ai_n26833213]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DAVIS, Calif. -- The institutional activism practiced by the nation's largest public pension fund -- the California Public Employees' Retirement System -- can create billions of dollars in wealth for investors while expanding shareholder rights, according to a new study by a finance professor at the University of California, Davis....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Memoirs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6006/is_200604/ai_n24207257]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Memoirs; by Ahmed Kathrada. Forewords by Nelson Mandela and Arthur Chaskalson. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2004. xxiv, 400pp. ISBN: 1-86872-918-4. R189.95.If one wants to trace the 1940-1963 period of Johannesburg based Indian South African political activism against White domination and its policy of Apartheid there is no better place to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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