Word: candlelighting
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Meanwhile, Black Students Association President Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 said his group is co-sponsoring a candlelight vigil in Boston Common this Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., featuring escaped Sudanese slave Francis Bok. The event aims to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide, Adjah said...
...happy to leave the site to meet Devin, an American I met on the night train, for dinner. Over a beer we joke about the nuns, the souvenir shops selling Jesus holograms, the obvious lack of nightlife. But despite our levity, we decide to go back and watch the candlelight procession in front of the church, where we hear "Hail Mary" in French, English, Spanish, Italian and German, and see pilgrims marching with candles held high...
...gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city and its 5.4 million residents, so even the pampered children of government officials have been forced to do their homework by candlelight, and factories have had to buy diesel generators to produce their own electricity. Last year, during the worst of the blackouts, traffic lights went dark and newspapers ran special sections listing which districts would be affected that day?a situation that is likely to repeat itself in the next few weeks...
Since the beheading of Korean interpreter Kim Sun Il in Iraq last week, Koreans have been struggling to comprehend the brutal act?and wondering whom to blame. Some of the thousands attending nightly candlelight vigils have pointed fingers at the United States; others denounced South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun; a few directed their anger at South Korea's small Muslim community, with one man even barging into a mosque in Seoul wielding a knife...
According to TBTN Co-Chair Christina H. Cheuk ’06, the highlight of the week will be the candlelight vigil—scheduled for 7 p.m. tomorrow on the steps of Memorial Church—which has been a trademark of TBTN since it began over 15 years...