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...Irate lawmakers this week threatened to delay the contract because they believe the Air Force unfairly tilted the award to the European firm - a charge the Air Force rejects. Boeing has said it may launch a formal protest after it gets an Air Force briefing explaining the decision on Friday. The initial contract is for 179 planes over 15 years to refuel the Pentagon's fighters and bombers in mid-air. Ultimately, it could balloon to 500 planes worth about $100 billion...
...Crosby recalls an example of this from her undergraduate career at Stanford. The school's sports teams were called the Indians from 1930 to 1972, when the name was dropped because of protest from Native American students. Still, from time to time the former mascot would appear on t-shirts and paraphernalia - and each time it fell to Native American students to bring up their objections to the administration, Crosby says. "Why is it always their job?" she asks...
...human eye. The previously-mentioned “In the Near Future” by Sharon Hayes consists of a series of projected images. Hayes stands in various locations in New York City that have been home to political and civil demonstrations in the past, while the hand-drawn protest signs she holds in her hands invoke their spirit. The photos establish a triangle between the photographer, the protestor (Hayes), and the onlookers, bringing attention to the importance of individual protest. Diving into the landscape of the urban city, Hayes is surrounded by the city traffic, ignored by passersby...
...executive director Ted A. Mayer issued an open letter yesterday to disgruntled students outlining six days of new menu changes and addressing concerns about food quality in light of rising prices. The letter comes on the heels of increasing student complaints over house e-mail lists and through proposed protest campaigns. The Mather House e-mail list has had almost 200 e-mails detailing student dissatisfaction with HUDS food, according to Mather Undergraduate Council Representative Arvind H. Vaz ’08. “The amount of anger and resentment, I’ve never seen before...
...Jury nullification is American dissent, as old and as heralded as the 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger, who was acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, and absent a government capable of repairing injustices, it is legitimate protest. If some few episodes of a television entertainment have caused others to reflect on the war zones we have created in our cities and the human beings stranded there, we ask that those people might also consider their conscience. And when the lawyers or the judge or your fellow jurors seek explanation, think for a moment...