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...only one thing?and it wasn't a labor walkout. Japanese players are loyal company men first, superstars second, and even in a reform-minded era, baseball is a time capsule of old-fashioned hierarchy. So when players threatened a strike (albeit only on weekend games) last week to protest a plan to combine the two professional leagues and merge the debt-strapped Kintetsu Buffaloes into the Orix BlueWave, it was clear that something was very wrong...
...regular people,” said the Minnesota native, who will start at the Law School this fall. “It’s a really good vibe. People in New York don’t have problems with the police. Voicing a large peaceful protest is a positive thing,” he said over chants of “Down with Bush...
...Numbers 500,000 Number of protest marchers in New York City on the eve of the U.S. Republican National Convention, according to protest organizers...
...create problems. Whether they are against the Republican Party or just against everything, I don't know. We welcome them too, as long as they don't take away the rights of others. And if they try to, we'll enforce the law. Also, remember Boston kept the protesters [at July's Democratic Convention] away from the FleetCenter. And in some places, they had barbed wire. We're not going to have any barbed wire, and we plan to grant people the right to protest right next to [Madison Square] Garden...
...that the Swift Boat controversy reached a rabid apogee--that would be the day a Bush campaign lawyer resigned because of his ties to the Swifties, and Max Cleland made the stagy delivery of a protest letter to the Bush ranch--a woman named Elba Nieves stood at a town meeting in Philadelphia and told John Kerry that she had recently been laid off. The candidate proceeded to ask her a series of questions. She answered with quiet dignity. She had worked in a ribbon factory for four years. She said the company was having trouble keeping up with foreign...