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In the weeks leading up to the war, poets held teach-ins at Harvard, theater groups performed their pleas for peace and hundreds waved handmade signs in a Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ)-sponsored walkout.
One man, ignoring the pleas of his friends stepped forward and said he could help. He was taken to a map where he pointed to a position and said, "They are there now, 20 of them and vehicles." A helicopter was sent to investigate and reported military vehicles camouflaged in...
Despite being warned not to throw food to civilians along the way, many soldiers gave into the pleas; every few trucks someone would toss off a meal. Every time I saw it, the closest kid would scramble for the package and then take it directly to an old man about...
And every year, a handful of Cambridge natives make desperate pleas to the housing office in an effort not to get placed in the House next to their childhood home or elementary school.
...Santillan, whose family was smuggled out of Mexico three years ago, spent the last several days close to death; after the first transplant, her type O-positive blood attacked the type A organs. Tuesday afternoon, her mother pleaded through the media for a new donor. "Please help me find the organs that my daughter needs to live," she said. Those pleas were answered late Wednesday night, when a new double-donor was identified...