Word: commoners
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...results against common opponents were any indication of what was to come, Monmouth had to feel pretty good about its chances. The Hawks came into the game fresh off its first-round, penalty-shootout win over a UConn team that had crushed Harvard, 4-0, earlier in the year...
...would say [dual format] is a strength [for us],” sophomore Walter Peppelman said. “Anytime the team comes together, working towards a common goal, how could it not be a strength...
...Dear Harvard Community,” they wrote in an email. “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with the Undergraduate Council, common sense requires them to declare the causes which impel them to the separation: Considering the recent complications in regard to the UC elections, we, Weld Thirty-Four (hereinafter WTF) and associates, declare null and void the authority...
...Environmental concerns are a common cause of unrest in China. Last summer a handful of villages in the country's interior exploded with anger over heavy metal factories residents suspected of polluting the air and groundwater. Those protests were cases of poor residents who, having had their complaints ignored by factory managers and local officials, felt compelled to take matters into their own hands, sometimes shuttering the offending plants by force...
...Monday's protest represents a different thread of environmental demonstration, in which well-organized, middle class residents gather to oppose a threat to their common interests, says Shanghai-based environmental attorney Charles McElwee. It follows similar efforts by citizens to block a chemical plant in the coastal city of Xiamen in 2007 and a demonstration against a proposed petrochemical facility near Chengdu in 2008. "They are generally directed more toward proposed projects that they think may have an impact to health or property values," he says. "These are classic 'not in my backyard' protests that you see happen in developed...