Word: battleground
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...Thailand Bangkok Songkran Festival [April 13-15] Thailand erupts in a frenzied water fight during this ritualistic festival, with locals, tourists and even the police using everything from buckets to high-powered water guns to wage battle. Khao San road, Bangkok's backpacker nexus, is the battleground of choice. For more info, visit thailandgrandfestival.com
...University was an important battleground in the youth movement of the 1960s, with the most significant battle being the 1969 takeover of University Hall. People who were part of the opposition, however, “suffered from self-importance,” according to Cantor...
...demands coming out of the unions at Yale are similar to the demands coming out at Harvard,” said MacKinnon, who is also a Crimson editor. “There is a growing push to improve labor conditions at universities. Yale could become a real battleground for this...
...with right-of-center politics, the Patriot has courted controversy from the start: dubbing Berkeley Congresswoman Barbara Lee a "traitor" for casting the sole vote in the House against authorizing military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks; calling for the bulldozing of People's Park, a local battleground of civil disobedience; describing the activities of a campus Mexican-American group as "Student Funded Bigotry and Hate." The February edition will celebrate Black History Month with an all-out assault on affirmative action. Says U.C. Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain: "The right-wing kids come in with...
...Rahim and his men had apparently received a new terrorist directive: to sow as much fear as possible by setting off bombs around Afghanistan's cities. For now, that plan may have been foiled. But the message of the past week is disturbingly clear: Afghanistan is still a deadly battleground, and America's Taliban and al-Qaeda enemies are ready to fight...