Activist investor fund Third Point, whose hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb built a major position in distressed Greek government bonds in September, also expressed interest.

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They suffered a major backlash in April of 2008 when Daniel "El Cachetes" Perez Rojas, who commanded Zeta operations in Central America, was arrested in Guatemala.

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"This is the place where major corporations are very vulnerable, " says Daniel Kessler, press officer at Greenpeace.

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At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.

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Daniel Murphy homered and Anthony Recker had a run-scoring double for the Mets, who spoiled an impressive major league debut by the Marlins' prized pitching prospect.

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