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...ignoring the will of the people of the state." And while Wednesday's legislation represents more of a compromise than an unqualified victory for the flag's foes - the bill ensures the flag's presence on Capitol grounds and would forbid the removal of, or changes to, any Confederate monument across the state - it does accomplish one major feat: At last, state legislators have a chance to close the door on this lengthy and painful debate and finally focus on the business of governing...
More than 15 planned to "sleep-in" on Beinecke Plaza last night to continue the protest and protect the three-sided monument...
They also erected a three-sided plyboard monument with one side for workers, one side for students and one side for the administration. The student and worker's side contained quotes, pictures and signed messages, but the administrative side contained a letter of support addressed to the WRC that activists are urging the administration to sign...
...meeting held after the rally yesterday Yale administrators rejected demonstrators' request to keep the monument as a permanent structure, demanding that it be taken down each night and rebuilt the next morning and that it be permanently removed at the end of the week...
...President Robert Mugabe's first actions after taking office 20 years ago was to change the name of his country's iconic national monument to "Great Zimbabwe." The anthropological site that proves the existence of a sophisticated urban culture centuries before British settlers arrived and proclaimed the country "Rhodesia" had previously been known as "the Zimbabwe Ruins." But two decades after independence, Mugabe stands widely accused of turning his country into a validation of the monument's former name. The Zimbabwean leader lashed out at the African nation's former ruler, Britain, on Monday during a Cairo summit between...