Word: beene
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Up to 30 people were killed in March, and Lhasa has been under martial law since then. Demonstrations were reported as recently as last month.
"He wanted to assure me that he had nothing to do with it," Duehay said. "He had been present chairing a meeting of the Independents where it was discussed, and he wanted nothing to do with it."
That decision was what brought Wallace-Benjamin and about 75 others--many of them also parents of Commonwealth Day students--out to Brattle St. for a candlelight vigil on Tuesday. Since the school announced its plans to sell the property, the neighborhood has been attacked with charges of racism, classism...
"This issue is already too politicized," says Martin. "That's why we didn't go to a politician's home. This issue has been obfuscated for too long."
Harvard-bashing and Brattle St.-bashing have long been staples of Cambridge politics, and several have argued that Commonwealth Day fits neatly into the pattern.