Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fasting] is giving up something that most people take for granted, and it shows a sign of commitment besides just going out to protest," said David S. Grewal '98-'97, who is also fasting...
Student efforts are part of a recent international effort to protest the arrest of 800 nonviolent democracy activists by Burma's military regime, State Law and Order Council (SLORC...
...Arafat is so far the story's victor, Netanyahu is its goat. The outbreak of violence caught Netanyahu on a European tour, and his comments from abroad seemed eerily out of sync with developments back home. While Muslims worldwide howled in protest, he announced he was "proud" that his government had opened the Jerusalem tunnel. Hours after the initial Israeli-Palestinian gunfight, he asserted that "there is nothing to worry about." As for the complaint that the peace process was moribund, he maintained, that was absurd since he had after all already met with Arafat once. Asked whether he thought...
...home. "Everyone I know who is hitting this age feels stimulated that they have another 30 years to live, but they have no blueprint on how to proceed," says Colette Dowling, author of Red Hot Mamas, Coming Into Our Own at 50. "This movie captures their new protest. This group of women has been very vocal about everything in their life since they turned 20, and they're not stopping now." For while divorce is not something to celebrate, it does not have to be a defeat...
...they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...