Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demonstrator Casey A. Harrigan, one of 14 area college and high-school students marching behind a bullhorn-toting leader, said that yesterday's march was not the first such protest against policies at the South-borough, Mass., facility...
...program that helps delinquents steal members' passwords. And he's chronicled the AOL censorship policy that led to the banning of more than 100 words from chat-room names, from breasts to boy. On AOL, says Cassell, "even the word forbidden is forbidden." His first-ever act of protest was to write a program that took his collection of members' anti-AOL slogans ("Friends Don't Let Friends Join AOL") and made them scroll by to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance. Later, he put up a popular Website, called AOL Watch www.aolwatch.com) that contains more than 1,600 links...
...case seems a pale echo of the fiery debates over diversity in the early '90s, when, for example, a Harvard student erected a swastika to protest a classmate's Confederate flag. Today, says UCLA director of residential life Alan Hanson, "multiculturalism isn't really a hot topic." But the growth of religious conservatism could rekindle the flames. "Today you have a larger interest among students in religion, whether it's Orthodox Judaism or...Fundamentalist Christianity," says David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education. One survey indicates that half of freshmen identify themselves as Protestant, up from a third...
...good. To veto the bill passed Friday by the Duma ? and effectively make Russian Orthodoxy the dominant religion ? would anger the powerful church and a large section of the Russian public who support the bill as a defense of Russian culture. But to pass the measure would draw huge protest from Western churches such as the Mormons, whose large missionary programs in the country would be outlawed...
AUSTIN, Tex.: Remarks by a University of Texas law professor suggesting that African- and Mexican-Americans lack the drive to compete with white students in the classroom have sparked a high-profile protest from black leaders already angry with the federal court's dismantling of Texas affirmative-action admissions policies. TIME Texas Bureau Chief Sam Gwynne reports the Tuesday demonstration, to be attended by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will likely get support from the majority of the university community, which "detests" the court ruling that outlawed race-based Texas admissions policies. "In a state where minorities, in aggregate, will soon...