Word: antiwar
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...American officials in times of war is particularly instructive. Given that many in the Harvard community took this weekend to partake in the ANSWER protests against the Bush administration’s Iraq policy on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and as Harvard’s own vocal antiwar movement held demonstrations this past week, perhaps we all should take note of how Kerry became one of the most prominent opponents of the Vietnam...
...demonstrating its commitment to national defense. Colinear with an ostensible commitment to just this goal, Harvard is one of the American colleges most opposed to entertaining any semblance of a military presence inside its gates. The tradition started in 1969 when the University administration crumbled under the pressure of antiwar protestors and ejected the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) from campus. And ever since, the Paul Revere Battalion has not existed on Harvard’s campus in any appreciable way, except via the school’s graceful permissiveness of Harvard students to become cadets...
...minutes when Howard Dean issued a statement declaring that the recall had been about neither Governor Gray Davis nor Schwarzenegger but rather "the frustration so many people are feeling about the way things are going." The former Vermont Governor is not the only one who sees parallels between the antiwar fury that has propelled him to the front of the Democratic pack and the economic discontent in California. Once ignited, the anger there could not be tamed. Said apartment manager Arlene Schwab as she got into her car after voting in a Brentwood carpet store: "I never thought...
...still raise hackles, but now the fights are political: Penn visiting Iraq before the war (and then saying the Iraqis used him as a propaganda tool); Penn accusing a producer of freezing him out of a movie project because of his antiwar comments; Penn critiquing the U.S. invasion as if it were a screenplay. "There are incredible holes in the plot," he tells TIME. "The casting's terrible. This guy who is playing Donald Rumsfeld should be doing dinner theater. It's a really poorly thought-out movie, and it's killing people...
Most Memorable Moment: Getting maced by NYPD at antiwar protest...