Word: protestations
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Nine congressional candidates, a candidate for lieutenant governor, a city councillor, the vice mayor, a half-dozen members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) and several representatives of the Painters and Allied Trades Union descended on the Yard last Thursday to protest a Harvard contractor they say is opposing its workers' efforts to unionize...
...Tuesday may prove to be martyrs for a greater cause -- peaceful coexistence. "The Drumcree standoff and the murder of the children have isolated the hard-liners within the Unionist community," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "A lot of people within the Orange Order who were prepared to protest for the right to march in Drumcree have backed off and urged compromise, saying no road is worth a life...
...come from the ranks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. And that's part of Japan's conundrum. Traditionally, there has been no serious alternative to the LDP. The Japanese public has been willing to elect members of rival parties into the weak Upper House as a form of protest, as they did on Sunday, but they're still reluctant to put opposition candidates behind the wheel of real power in the dominant Lower House...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...
...better relations with the U.S. Khatami's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has unbanned scores of books, like Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and stopped requiring Iran's film directors to submit their scripts for advance approval. Students have been granted permits for demonstrations to protest the bullying tactics of Muslim hard-liners and even the validity of Islamic government...