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...protest, the opposition parties have begun to boycott budget sessions in the Diet legislature. "We cannot accept that the ministry that deals with grave social issues like decreasing population is headed by someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the people," says Yoshiaki Takaki, head of the Diet policy committee for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan...
Political demonstrations turned musical this week as members of a protest group entered Harvard classrooms, singing for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. The vocalists were members of the LaRouche Youth Movement—followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, a political agitator and eight-time presidential candidate. Some professors welcomed the lyrical demonstrators as a calming force amid the hustle and bustle of shopping period classrooms. Professor of Biostatistics David P. Harrington said he gave the group permission to perform in his course, Statistics 100, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods.” “They...
Clearly JANE FONDA knows what to wear to an antiwar rally: shaggy bangs, a smart turtleneck and a look of steely determination. In what she said was her first such protest in 34 years, the actress joined marchers in Washington to demand that U.S. troops leave Iraq. "Silence is no longer an option," Fonda said to cheers from the crowd. Dubbed Hanoi Jane by conservatives for her stance on Vietnam (that's her in 1970, left, in Valley Forge, Pa.), Fonda said she had restrained her Iraq activism so as not to be a distraction for the contemporary antiwar movement...
...controversy for a taped telephone conversation leaked to the public in which he helps plot the arrest of a journalist on trumped-up libel charges. Marín has denied that it is his voice on the tape.Palou invited Marín to speak at the university, prompting student protest. In the cartoon, Marín and Palou are playing poker with pigs and dogs, while Palou calls Marín’s speech at the college “free publicity.”Members of the Catarina staff said that many students and faculty have expressed their...
...many as 13 with eight minutes gone by—thanks mostly to a sterling offensive half from senior center Brian Cusworth, who dropped in 17 points in the period. But a late Yale run, combined with a technical foul assessed to Harvard coach Frank Sullivan in protest of a non-foul call on freshman point guard Drew Housman’s last-second shot, transformed the positive feelings into those of apprehension. “The first half, we came out a little sluggish,” said Yale point guard Eric Flato. “We really tried...