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...part of the Establishment when you're protesting it. The spirit of speaking out and sitting in is as sacred as the bygone football heroes whose statues grace the University of California campus. Where else could you find the urgent demand WALK OUT ON THE WAR appearing in large chalk letters on the sidewalk, on cue, the morning after air strikes began? Where else would the city's fire trucks remove their American flags for fear of becoming targets for protesters? And where else would the city council mull over a resolution, as it did two weeks ago, condemning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning the Price of Protest | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...need to return to what might feel normal. In New York, the High School for Leadership & Public Service, a magnet school two blocks from the World Trade Center, was forced to evacuate and wedge itself into cramped quarters at another school, three miles away. The teachers lacked books, even chalk. But principal Ada Dolch is determined to get back to basics or "kids will discuss this for the rest of their lives instead of doing math." That doesn't mean the tragedy has not become a learning opportunity. A health class is examining what kids inhaled in the explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Coping With Crisis | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...There was about a square foot of powder, and it just looked like some chalk or detergent,” Grill said...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Powder Found at Winthrop | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...Chalk one up to the schedule makers. They may have saved the Harvard football team’s chances for the Ivy League Championship...

Author: By Alexander M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to the Sea: Schedule Gods Kind to Harvard Football | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...know what we have lost. What can the terrorists chalk up in their favour? In fact very little. As yet no one has had the courage to come up and claim the infernal act in their name. Even the often-mentioned Osama bin Laden has apparently denied involvement. This is significant. It was obviously an act of blood revenge, a subject about which anthropologists have long written about in terms of the tribal codes of the Middle East. There is, regrettably, nothing very surprising in this. There had been too much murder going on in Israel and the West Bank...

Author: By Nur O. Yalman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Terrorist Mayhem in America | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

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