Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening's goal, said organizer Desiree R. Martinez, was not to protest Columbus...
...Jiang comes to Harvard, University administrators should not allow him to avoid the question and answer period everyone from Yasser Arafat to Mel Gibson has agreed to. Students, faculty and community members alike should fell comfortable in expressing their dissent. In addition, leaders of the Tiananmen Square protest who live in the Boston area should be invited to speak in as prominent a place and be equally if not more warmly welcomed by none less than those who welcome Jiang. In addition, Harvard should welcome all respectful protesters onto University property and ensure that there is room for a sizable...
...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu too the episode was a multiple fiasco. The Mossad operation failed. It jeopardized relations with Jordan. It strained ties with the U.S. Late last week Canada recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the use of faked passports. And once again Netanyahu had fallen short of his pledge to provide Israelis with an answer to Hamas terrorism...
...national prominence, two more groups of Buddhists had converged with two more groups of seekers. Helen Tworkov, editor of the influential Buddhist quarterly Tricycle, says a generation explored Buddhism "out of an enormous sense of shame" over the Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora. Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures...
...students have every right to protest," he said. "[But] I guess my position is that there are some who believe that it's not desirable but appropriate for the world leader to come here. It's also a great experience for students to see leaders in action...