Word: chants
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Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...fifth floor of 1430 Mass. Ave. (better known as CVS). A narrow corridor leads to closet-sized rooms just big enough to fit a professor and an FM reporter. Framed, dusty posters in Arabic from the eighties line the dull white walls, and the sounds of a Middle Eastern chant play softly from a distant corner...
...wandered in from across the hall. This brave soul was buttoned-up in a simple ensemble he might have purchased at the Gap, in contrast to the alterna-duds others were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits the truth, yo,” he added. –Daniel J. Mandel
...section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have fully...
...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...