Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the amendment passed, the bill's original sponsors resigned their sponsorship in protest...
There are those Harvard classes of the past who, when reminiscing about the college years, recall times of war and protest. Stories still float buoyantly around campus about days of old, when University Hall was taken over by a feisty student body, or when those on campus actually read a newspaper every morning because a war was raging in Europe...
...true story of the Class of 1998 is not oneof upheaval and protest; there have been noseachanges in the institution in the past fouryears...
Randomization attracted an initial protest. TheUndergraduate Council urged the new Dean of theCollege, Harry R. Lewis '68, to review the effectsof the policy after three years. And as the lastnon-randomized seniors are about to leave, thepolicy has attracted criticism from minoritycommunities who allege that the policy hashindered their ability to provide supportingenvironments for their members...
Around this date in 1989, a lone protester stood in front of a column of four Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square. On June 4, 1998, a lone protester sat in a wheelchair near the Monument to the People's Heroes at the heart of the same Square, handing out leaflets. He wasn't even protesting the massacre; his leaflets demanded compensation for a crippling shooting in the southeastern Fujian province. Like his predecessor, he was dragged away, kicking and screaming, by the authorities. Unlike his predecessor, he lived to protest another...