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I knew, of course, that Icahn was an "activist shareholder, " but I had no idea why he might be calling.

Artist and social activist Ai Weiwei recently referred to Twitter as "a ray of light" in "a very dark room. "

Everybody seems to be an environmental activist nowadays.

Syrian activist Khaled el Ekheytar said because of the media ban, it has been up to the protesters to get the word out to the world.

And it was clear that the Admiral was a wonderful person when the activist saw how much the Admiral adored his son.

For instance, they turn practically everybody into a potential human-rights activist, ready to take pictures or video of police brutality.

Historian and activist Howard Zinn died a little over a year ago, and his voice is sorely missed.

I wasn't as familiar with his mother and with her role as an activist.

"There is still a lot of enthusiasm and support out there for her, " says a leader of a women's activist organization.

When she first ran for office in 1983, the entire tribal council opposed her: not because she was an activist, but because she was a woman.

To his left, the New Democrats are trying to woo voters with activist economic policies.

The anti-war activist was not surprised at all that his primary adversary, the Admiral, had been afflicted with a drug addict for a son.

"They were all arrested by the anti-terrorism branch of the Airforce Intelligence, " said the activist.

If true, that is inexcusable given that it had been warned it was a target by Anonymous, the activist hacking collective.

AIDS activist groups said the numbers showed the United States is doing too little to control the epidemic.

Animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot wrote to the German minister calling on her not to give in to pressure to overturn the Anuga ban.

Her work as a reporter, teacher and NGO activist has taken her to all corners of the globe.

Mr. Bohndorf is an activist shareholder who resides on the Spanish island of Ibiza and who had been critical of the bank, said this person.

Skeptics asked whether it was an early sign of a more activist administration or an isolated example.

She said the difficulty of finding adequate housing turned her into an activist.

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who has vowed to list the names of all the student victims, said the figure "is far from the truth" .

Friends of the activist confirmed Mr Chen had not left the embassy voluntarily.

Yet it was the heaviest-known penalty imposed on any activist for "inciting subversion" since such a crime was written into law in 1997.

Another activist, Mohammad Abdullah, said the amnesty offer showed "weakness on the part of the regime. "

"We were able to move a bit more freely, " said Maria Haddad, an activist in Homs reached via Skype.

The question now is whether Mr. Kan, a plain-spoken former civic activist, can further defy precedent by lasting more than a year in office.

Coca-Cola has struck up partnerships with at least some of these activist groups.

HISTORIANS may one day label the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency as the most activist in economic policy of post-war history.

Such a fight would give activist investors even more of a bad name than they already have in corporate Europe.

The journalist and human-rights activist Hassan Al Amin said such problem were to be expected in a newly forming government.

Other activist funds facing resistance include Ichigo Asset Management, The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) and Dalton Investments.

With so much at stake at home, public enthusiasm for a more activist Japanese role in global affairs has waned considerably.

IN 2003, Bono, the rock star and activist, warmed hearts in the Great White North when he said that "the world needs more Canada" .

Democracy activist Ramon Saul Sanchez said the announcement is good news for advocates of democratic change in Cuba.

"This whole area used to be a terrorist haven, " says Fernando Rubio, an environmental activist and agroforestry promoter.

The interview - which has not been confirmed - would be a coup for the Hollywood star's brand of activist journalism.

Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recommend Tor as a mechanism for maintaining civil liberties online.

The gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev who'd brought the case said the ruling had important implications for other groups in Russia.

The meeting is disrupted by an argument between the chairman and leave-wing activist.

He gave up his job as a biochemist to become a historian, writer, publisher and activist.

A bearded former antiwar activist, Komanoff grew up in a liberal enclave of Long Island and studied mathematics and economics at Harvard.

Richard Boyd Barrett is a political activist with the Ireland-based group People Before Profit. He said Mr. Cowen should go now.

Although no large protests have occurred, at least one activist was detained for being present at a suggested demonstration spot.

One Afghan activist involved in the process said: "The main problem is that the marital rape article is still there. "

"We are here to collect on the promises he made to us, " said a female activist.

US filmmaker and activist Michael Moore has offered 20, 000 dollars to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange post bail in London.

One striking example of this was the scrap that activist investors went through with VNU, the Dutch business information group.

"ETIM has become a generic term for any Uighur activist group that may or not have links with the Pakistan group, " he said.

A compromise agreement has brought activist investor Carl Icahn into the Yahoo fold, but not in the manner for which he would have hoped.

You could read a paragraph written by an 'activist' over and over without getting the foggiest idea what they are talking about.

Borge Wilhemsen, a Labor Party activist, said he drove for five hours to be at the memorial service and brought his 6-year-old daughter.

This week they were rebuked by Campaign 2000, an activist group, which reported that child poverty is now as bad as it was two decades ago.

Burmese political activist Zin Mar Aung was awarded for her efforts to promote democracy and the rights of ethnic minorities.

When an activist VP deliberately keeps the president in the dark, it can be difficult to discern where the buck really stops.

White says Fela Kuti's mother was a women's rights activist, a teacher in Nigeria and a major influence on Kuti and his music.

I don't see her adopting five children from five different countries, but I could see Barbie with a conscience, activist Barbie.

In my judgment, the Microsoft case was a policy error, and I fear that a more activist antitrust policy will mean more errors of this sort.

She was an anti-abortion activist before entering politics.

In a recent study of India's public services, the activist and author Samuel Paul concluded that "the quality of governance is appalling. "

However, the visit is seen as a test of official reaction ahead of a national tour planned by the political activist later this month.

In this reading, Obama lacks the courage of his activist impulses, and his hesitations will play right into the hands of his enemies.

She became an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind graduate of Radcliffe College.

Labour strategists evidently wanted a young, with-it activist to introduce Gordon Brown at the launch of their manifesto.

So far only two obscurities have declared themselves, a pizza mogul and a gay-rights activist.

In reaction to its activist orientation, a portion of the legal services program was also privatized.

Mary Ruwart a libertarian speaker, writer, activist and was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

In two thousand six, the United States Tennis Association named the tennis center in honor of tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King.

But he was also an activist and a race car driver. Newman started in theatre and TV in the 1950s. He went on to win three Oscars. . .

Sultana Kamal, a leading human rights activist, says the system could be misused by political parties, especially by the ruling party.

The Obama White House last month politely rebuffed an activist who showed up with a Carter-era panel.

A pro-government activist in Venezuela has handed herself over to the authorities a day after a violent attack on an opposition TV station.

In December, an activist Web site called bauxitevietnaminfo. com was hacked, and McAfee said the attacks began around the same time.

Not so, says Andrea Feldman, a civil activist. "There is no sense of responsibility in this government, " she says.

On JDOM (on which I was a co-creator and long-time activist), most of our major software changes were in response to user requests.

It was unclear if any of the attacks resulted in casualties, but one activist suggested opponents of the regime would step up such activity.

"Harmony" was the dream and hope of that great Chinese thinker and activist Kang Youwei.

An increase in divorces, say, may seem like good news to a woman activist, but bad to a Catholic priest.

During the panel discussion that followed the video, Ai Weiwei, an artist and social activist, was the first to speak.

At a local charity that offers food to the poor, Mexican American activist Pancho Medina says the law targets Hispanics.

Anne Lusk, champion of the Stowe, VT, trail and a greenway activist, has suggested that green ways and schools make useful partners.

A 48-year-old ex-soldier with a blunt manner, he wasn't well known among activist lawyers or even other people at his own Beijing firm.

He makes pro-forma statements about upholding the rule of law, at a time when authorities have launched a new crackdown on activist lawyers.

Anatoly Lebedev, an ex-KGB agent who is now a prominent environmental activist, accompanies me to one of these places.

One deaf activist spoke about this wariness of outsiders, those who are not a part of Deaf culture.

yahoo had provided email account information to the chinese government that led to a jail sentence for a political activist and writer.

Pinkerton was an abolitionist (activist against slavery).

A Russian human-rights activist, Lev Ponomaryov, was beaten up in Moscow.

Today, a working mother can caucus beside a party activist, but it was not always this way.

His wife, Zeng Jinyan, a prominent blogger and human rights activist, also could not be contacted.

Another activist investor has launched a campaign to strip Mr. Murdoch of his chairmanship and appoint an independent board chairman.

"We had to put in a lot of pressure to have the third gender counted in the census, " said gender minority rights activist Sunil Babu Pant.

Another Afghan activist in London for Women's Day was Asila Wardak Jamal, who co-founded the Afghan Women's Network.

However, Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist who tried to launch legal actions on behalf of the victims, is still imprisoned.

Well short of Obama's first hundred days, the dominant characteristic of his Presidency is clear: activist government, on every front.

British activist Sally Becker, who evacuated many children during the war, arranged to bring Kazazic to the United States for treatment.

And a prominent human-rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, was abducted and later found shot dead in neighbouring Ingushetia.

Activist judges, teenage pregnancy, gun control, city planning, the war in Vietnam, income distribution, and crime all get brief hearings.

An activist, writer and poet Julia shot to fame with her famous Civil War song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" .

I often say it's necessary to be the "activist" of a Truth.

The fact that I can make so much money as an activist investor shows that something's wrong with governance in most of corporate America.

As Mother Jones, the great union activist of the early 20th century, put it: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. "

A Russian activist posted online documents apparently showing a $4 billion fraud in a state-run company's trans-Siberian pipeline project.

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer.

Gomes, who attempted to commit suicide while in North Korean custody, was believed to be a Christian activist.

Clooney, a U. S. actor and activist, said he could recall meeting the Italian leader only on one occasion, about aid to Africa.

The NY Times hints that China's activist government's actions are "unfair" WTO violating that hurts the well being of the United States.

Activist style: participates in learning situations that give them the opportunity to be active, living new experiences and goals.

These are the ones who wanted her silenced. She really was the only Chechen activist to tackle these outrageous cases.

The civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, though, had to complain to a paper that reported he had died "broke, alone and unpopular" .

I've spent my life as a warrior, working for women's issues, working on political campaigns, being an activist for the environment.

She hired an investment bank to defend itself any activist investors who may demand the company be broken up.

At last, it presents the social background and structural premise for the activist attitude of the ECJ in a systematic insight.

archetypal patterns; she was the prototypal student activist.

Davis was acquitted of all charges in 1972, and went on to become a professor and political activist.

A few companies need technical talented person, constant regular meeting looks for those activist in community opening a source.

Agnes Smedley was a well-known American journalist, writer, and social activist, and an outstanding woman.

Lifelong activist and freelance writer Catherine Blinder went, but was skeptical in the beginning.

Activist and writer Bill Browning uses the word 'angry' 17 times in a single blog post to describe his feelings.

Actress and activist Angelina Julie Jolie presented the award ; She played Mariane Pearl in the film version of a the book .

Wang, the activist, said the decision showed not only changing attitudes in China toward animals but the power of the Internet.

Does this sound like the ranting of a Tea Party activist?

He was also a leading writer and printer, political thinker, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist and diplomat.

One activist, who will be referred to as Ammar, said that every Thursday he travels to Homs to protest.

"Mrs. Gandhi normally consents to discussions on a number of issues we raise, " said Harsh Mander, an activist and member of the council.

In fact, says Gaushiya Khan, a local activist, medics are ready to reveal a fetus's sex for as little as 600 rupees.

"Please don't write so much about politics when you write about me, " one labour activist recently demurred when pressed on these issues.

However, she did meet representatives from Chinese civil society, including Gao Yaojie, a 82-year-old Aids activist.

Alicia is a charity activist and one of the trustees of the Bryan Adams Foundation, a charity registered in the UK.

I think the critics of an activist fiscal policy are forgetting the essential role of monetary policy as it relates to fiscal policy.

They say she could be an "activist judge" who will let personal feelings and political beliefs influence her rulings.

Mr Kan was a prominent social activist before entering politics and is a former health minister.

The latter is really an argument for a non-activist monetary policy, the kind that is generally preferred in continental Europe.

Even if Mr Rogers, a writer and human-rights activist, knew Burmese, he would grapple with the secrecy that surrounds the junta.

So I decided instead to become a social homeopath, a pro-activist, and to investigate the root cause of these symptoms.

Citigroup has come under pressure from activist union shareholders who want the financial conglomerate to break itself up.

Born was a powerful Washington lawyer with a track record for activist causes.

Smedley was close to Ding Ling, the well-known novelist and activist for women's causes, with whom Smedley corresponded until her death.

Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers.

The next American we remember is Justin Dart, a longtime activist for the rights of disabled people.

Human rights activist Enrique Cisneros also had a wait-and-see attitude towards President Obama, but said most Mexicans view him favorably.

In her later years she became an animal rights activist and has even been fined for inciting racial hatred.

Another activist, Cody Beck, compares talking about his attraction to dogs and horses to a gay teenager coming out.

Christian activist Ren Bumei proclaimed a time of fasting after the death of 4-year-old Li Siyi due to police negligence.

But it has been abruptly abandoned after an animal rights activist threatened to disrupt the latest tournament, organizers said.

Singh's government and members of the opposition have urged Hazare to let doctors feed him intravenously, but the activist has refused.

Kato was an activist with the group Sexual Minorities Uganda.

Yevgenii Zhovtis, Kazakhstan's best-known human-rights activist, was one such hopeful observer.

As a democracy and rights activist, Lu was jailed in 1979 and served five and a half years when Taiwan was under martial law.

More uncertainty in policy multiplier leads to a more conservative and less activist policy.

A towering figure in Kenya, Maathai was renowned as a fearless social activist and an environmental crusader.

But now, after over a decade in power, Labour is resurrecting the idea of an activist industrial policy.

Activist investors acquire stakes in companies and attempt to force them to make changes.

That was below what the more activist of Cambodia's 273 unions demanded, although a three-day, industry-wide strike did not materialise.

The incident, in which one activist suffered cracked ribs, marked a dramatic escalation in hostilities between whalers and campaigners.

A similar postcard campaign was launched to protest against the detention of an activist lawyer named Xu Zhiyong.

So it's no wonder she wanted to be a public lands and forest activist. The interest in stuff came later.

The leave-wing group packed the general purpose committee with activist.

"We are not given licences to run a business, " says a young Papuan independence activist who does not want to be named.

It would also leverage their balance sheets to a greater degree than either hedge fund activist seeks.

Richard Viguerie, a veteran conservative activist, says that "I've never seen conservatives so downright fed up as they are today" .

A Filipina activist once said to me, "How do you cook a rice cake? With heat from the bottom and heat from the top. "

The best expression of this positive approach that I know is by Joanna Macy, a Buddhist social activist.

Indeed, a short time later, China imposed one of the lengthiest prison terms in a long time on a leading human rights activist.

The big surprise of the night was Sean Penn , winning best actor for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk .

The activist says, by using the same words [as the Kremlin], Americans indicate agreement with that kind of Russia.

A political activist in his youth, he became known for making large, seemingly angry paintings that used color to communicate emotions.

He was a strong activist for civil rights and peace.

Its activist role in rescue and assistance efforts after a tsunami swept through parts of Southeast Asia was much noted in the region.

If the poll subject is political or religious your Web site may be circulated to activist groups on both sides of the issue.

A story about some old, out-of-touch activist who claims that "studies show" videogames are bad for children.

Master Li Chengju is a renowned portrait oil painter and activist in promoting Chinese renaissance creativity movement around the world.

A political activist in Hama told VOA that government forces have been raiding the homes of activists and carrying out arrests and killings.

On Saturday Elton John begged Ukrainian authorities to stop a recent pattern of violence against gay activist leaders.

Israeli activist Jeff Halper, who was also on board, says that does not justify the Israeli blockade.

At the Preserving African Cultural Heritage meeting, archaeologists called on their colleagues to engage in activist archaeology.

Later, in a dingy coffee shop in Enghelab Street, I met up with a prominent activist in the recent demonstrations .

Human rights activist Durge Rao says his research suggests that the Maoists depend on young boys for the bulk of their recruits.

Financial reform activist Robert Bixby says the biggest problem for the American economy is the country's political system.

The activist has been encamped in an open-air venue in New Delhi with thousands of supporters.

Following the raid, activist Craig Rodwell advocated tirelessly to establish an annual reminder of the Stonewall uprising.

In Taiz, activist Ghazi al-Samei said protesters were in the yard in front of the governor's office and had been there since Friday.

One activist, who asked to be named Ms. Ahmed, says the government is fostering a culture of fear to keep its opponents off the streets.

But Khaled El Ekhetyar, a Syrian activist based in Beirut, was able to contact some residents in Daraa Saturday.

Eagleton added: "Jesus has most of the characteristic features of the revolutionary activist, including celibacy. "

He was let out of prison only days after Ai Weiwei, a famous artist and activist, was allowed home on bail.

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and founder of Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran.

According to the conditions of his bail, the outspoken artist and political activist is forbidden from speaking to the media.

Another prime target for the candidates are the activist professionals in Castle Donington and other twee villages outside Ashby.

Microblogging campaigns have targeted corruption, suspicious lawsuits, kidnapped children and the plight of activist lawyers.

He is an environmental activist, and his album Change Me was dedicated to raising eco-awareness among Chinese youth.

CNN posted footage of a scuffle between Bale and the activist's guards on its website Friday.

In another similar debate a few weeks ago, my opponent, artist and animal rights activist Sunny Taylor, made the same point.

Famous architectural experts say "Beijing has forbidden activist, xian, there are thousands of homes QiXian terracotta army. "

Three other proxy advisers and two activist investors also are pushing for a boardroom makeover.

Sussan Tahmasebi, an activist for two decades, works to strengthen Iranian civil society with a focus on gender issues and women's rights.

Now, a twenty-two year old social activist in the United States is walking to raise money and awareness about the need for clean water.

To think is to act, to act is to think; activist theories, theorist actions.

Susan was an activist in the women's movement for equal rights.

David Webb, an independent investor and corporate governance activist, has also railed against the proposal.

Actress and activist Angelina Julie Jolie presented the award; She played Mariane Pearl in the film version of the book.

It was these actions, says Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran human-rights activist, that landed Mr Khodorkovsky in jail.

Home, one of the beatles' soul, poet, social activist, anti-war person.

His wife, Li Xinai, also an activist, has been placed under house arrest.

An activist group, Citizens Against Government Waste, called it an example of out-of-control spending and mismanagement .

Kwanzaa was established in 1966, during the height of the Civil Rights and Black Freedom movements, by activist and scholar Maulana Karenga.

China's actions will benefit US consumers who will import low priced , higher quality products due to China's activist policies.

Animal activist Catherine Rich said she supports the vaccine program, but said any health risk posed by the squirrels is overblown.

WITH her intense gaze, washed-out jeans and talk of freedom, Dilsat Aktas is a typical left-wing activist.

"There is huge demand for a more open economy and society, " says Kim Sang-hun, a North Korean human-rights activist.

David Webb, a shareholder activist, said that some of the blame must rest with the regulators themselves.

She was in the 19th century, is blind and deaf American writer, educator, philanthropist, social activist.

Antigraft activist Anna Hazare broke his hunger strike Sunday morning after the Indian government conceded to his demands.

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie presented the award. ; s he played Mariane Pearl in the film version of the book.

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie presented the award; she played Mariane Pearl in the film version of the book.

Bob Marley stated that his two biggest influences were the pan-Africanist activist Marcus Garvey and King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

She chronicled her quest on her blog, Not an Activist.

activist, Aat Peterse, says that the car industry's 'green credentials' are all promotional and have no real substance behind them.

Wanlop Hirikul, a local activist, says that where there was one dealer on the street, now there are three.

As it happens, Mr Chasowa, a pro-democracy activist, was wanted by police for publishing details of alleged corruption in high places.

As those who knew Bouazizi tell it, he was the very opposite of an activist.

A legal expert in Beijing said overseas backed activist groups have grounds for class action lawsuits over killing and forced relocations .

Since leaving the White House, she has worked as an artist and activist.

For his trouble, police in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub detained the activist for four hours.

At Bilderberg, I ran into Esther Coopersmith, a Democratic activist who had served as part of our UN delegation during the Carter years.

Penn, an outspoken liberal and anti-war activist, took a break from filming to visit Iraq as a journalist in 2004.

The statement looked like a new attack on the shareholder rights activist barred by Russia.

She filed a civil suit against the retail giant -- a practice the consumer activist has made a habit.

Tech sector: Web portal Yahoo announced a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn over its lineup of candidates for board of directors.

Lin is a Hakka social activist and musician who was involved with an influential social movement of the 1990's.

In contrast, HIV treatment is activist-led and concentrates on empowering individuals and applying the latest research on the ground.

Americans have grown slightly more receptive to the idea of an activist government.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is an Egyptian academic sociologist and democracy activist.

Unhappiness over pay extends far beyond the activist shareholders and union pension funds that bosses like to blame.

Tibetan activist groups say the death toll in ensuing clashes between protesters and security forces was considerably higher.

Almost all agree activist government was necessary in the immediate aftermath of the Lehman bankruptcy.

Beijing-based artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who called for the boycott, arranged a party on Wednesday to celebrate the delay.

MANA, the Mexican-American Women's National Association, organizes as feminist activist organization.

He had known Abdul Rashid Ghazi since Ghazi was a left-wing student activist at Islamabad's leading university, Quaid-i-Azam.

Among those detained is Huang Qi, an online activist based in Chengdu, a city near the earthquake zone.

The activist torch now is being carried by specialized investors who buy stakes in undervalued companies aiming to shake up management.

Huang Zunxian was a prominent political activist, reformatory thinker, diplomat and poet in modern China.

Obama is hardly a vulnerable liberal activist in an authoritarian regime.

There is no "natural fit" between feminists' public, activist lives and traditional religion.

Last month the Scottish National Party (SNP) picked a Muslim activist to fight the Westminster constituency of Glasgow Central.

The Center for Biological Diversity, an activist group, recently launched a boycott of the prized fish.

Japan, however, has a new and comparatively activist prime minister who some analysts say will stimulate its long-dormant domestic economy.

Harsh Mander, a social activist who has surveyed ongoing untouchability, talks of "dismaying" caste divisions.

It is about inculcating instincts for service excellence, and about having every civil servant be an "activist for change" .

Iranian opposition activist and journalist, Akbar Ganji, received the award in Washington Thursday night.

Activist shareholders are now competing against activist bondholders.