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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Horowitz, mass protest of the war stopped in 1971 in response to Richard Nixon's ending the draft laws...

Author: By Matthew R. Hubbard, | Title: Former Radical Talks On Conversion to Right | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

...wrong but were reluctant to impose their morals on others. Jesse Jackson (pro-life before running for president) once said, "There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of a higher order than the right to life...that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to be concerned." If people stayed out of issues that were "none of their business," we would still have slavery today. --Noble M. Hansen '00 Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to Kwan's Doubts About Abortion Support the Pro-Life Position | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

Still, the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition plans to protest during McCaffrey's upcoming lecture, as they did during his speech at the IOP, according to Coalition President Bill H. Downing...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Controversy Follows Drug Czar Invitation | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...disappointed the council has not acted," said Louise Dunlap, another participant in the protest, who criticized the council's "grid-lock...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz and Courtney A. Coursey, S | Title: Transfer Tax Proposal Divides City Councillors | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

Once upon a time boys and girls went to college to learn the meaning of life. They ruminated on Kierkegaard and Kant, dealt with existential dilemmas, argued over war, the Bomb and whether to protest or not to protest. "Thirty years ago," recalls Alexander Astin, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, "students were preoccupied with questions such as 'What is life all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEARNING TO EARN | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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