Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the different groups, Keohane says this is a parade of inclusion. No Native American groups will be participating, but the presence of protest groups will be felt...
...Indian Council [was] invited and [other such] individual groups, and they chose not to come," Keohane says. "[However, there will be] many protest groups--father's rights groups and two unions from the MBTA, demonstrating not to privatize the T. Everyone has a right to express themselves and the parade is an expression of that...
...happily watching baseball from the best seats in the park. Recently, though, he's been occupied mainly by telephone conversations handling disputes with the Baltimore Orioles. After his sloppy handling of the Roberto Alomar spitting incident, he needed to quickly and decisively rule on the latest controversy, a Baltimore protest of a catch by a 12-year old fan that turned a probable out into a game-tying eighth-inning home run in a game the Yankees later won. Budig and baseball's executive council overruled a five-page written request from Orioles owner Peter Angelos that the play...
...Smith's fury lacks justification, nor even that all the novel's whites are pompous, silly do-gooders. The white, wannabe-Indian writer and the white, Indian "expert" professor whom Alexie satirizes are fair enough as stereotypes. And fairness, for that matter, is not the first requirement of a protest novel. But Alexie's tale is septic with what clearly seems to be his own unappeasable fury. He ends Smith's story by prophesying that murderous vengeance will not die; the killings will continue. But the world is so oversupplied with justified hatred, righteously inflaming every continent and tribe, that...
More than five months after two students leaders resigned in protest, the Standing Committee on Public Service has been rejuvenated thanks to a summer compromise and a change in membership...