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...leading force in the fight against apartheid, outlawed and in exile since 1960, would once again be a legal participant in the nation's politics. Then someone shouted, "Amandla!" (power), the battle cry of the movement, and the crowd thundered back, "Awethu!" (is ours), and broke into a chant, "A.N.C. ! A.N.C...
...inaugural address, Havel's talk was an extraordinary jeremiad -- eloquent, gentle, but unstinting in its criticism. It was the last kind of speech that might have been expected from a man who had just won a war decades long and whose name had been cried out like a victory chant in the same Wenceslas Square the night before. Havel noted the achievement of 1989 by paraphrasing 17th century theologian Comenius -- "Your government, my people, has returned to you" -- but his speech was the antithesis of triumphalism. Instead, it was a bracing recitation of urgent needs, an inventory of the damage...
...changed? Possibly. But their saying so is not enough to convince me. Not while the killing goes on. Not while demonstrators at Harvard last week who described themselves as PLO supporters could chant "Israel no, Palestine Yes!" until one student prevailed upon them to find a less inflammatory (perhaps less honest) slogan...
...want you anymore!" a flag-waving crowd of 200,000 roared in a thunderous chant that echoed off the 19th-century buildings surrounding downtown Wenceslas Square. It was the 11th-straight day of massive protests in Czechoslovakia...
...Jane Fonda would be the perfect celebrity to lead the Harvard Protest Fund Drive. She could join forces with all three of Harvard's student activists and picket major American businesses. They could chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho, what we need is lots of dough," and pass around little tin cups for contributions...