Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it was announced that President Jiang Zemin would speak at Harvard, I found myself facing a peculiar, foreign impulse: I had the vague beginnings of what one might call "the urge to protest." At first the idea struck me as so misplaced that I nearly laughed it off. But as I followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew...
...only bright note in this announcement is that the grapes have not yet arrived at our undergraduate tables. Protests, letters and comment cards are appropriate if not imperative forms of protest. We Harvard students still have time to take the facts of the boycott into account and keep grapes off our tables...
...member of the audience, who introduced himself as a Kennedy school student and an organizer of the protest, brought up an additional issue...
Perpetrator Eugene Kashpureff called it "a protest." For twenty-four hours on July 14, Internet users attempting to register a domain name (like "business.com" or "savethewhales.org") with Net registrar InterNIC found themselves not at "internic.net" but at "alternic.net," the site of Kashpureff's own company...
...were actually pretty upset about this," said TCS Co-President Chienlan Hsu '99. "Chinese supporters were allowed to bring in Chinese flags, which is kind of the equivalent of our signs--a symbol of your protest or your support of the president. The supporters were allowed in, and we were...