Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1960s and '70s were a different matter. John Wayne was a Mason, which meant the protest generation wasn't. Nor did '80s antiestablishmentarians-turned-entrepreneurs feel much affinity toward a group of admitted joiners who perceived squareness as a virtue. That left the war veterans and youngsters like Feingold, now 62, who was taken under the wing of a brother in his Queens neighborhood in 1960. The man was a stickler for ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains...
...More importantly, the students aren't happy. "Bring down Habibie! Put Suharto on trial!" chanted a 1,500-strong youth group in the first major protest since Suharto's resignation. Over a thousand Habibie supporters also took to the streets Friday -- which suggests that the former veep must be doing something right. But half an endorsement isn't good enough, considering the economic tidal wave that's about to hit Habibie's shores. "Because he's not going to have support from across the board," says McCarthy, "it's hard to see how he's going to weather that." Habibie...
Conceding to the protesters' demands for a public statement, Carnesale, Harvard's provost until last spring, arrived at the scene of the protest and announced that he will not defy California's Proposition...
According to the Affirmative Action Coalition, organizers of yesterday's protest, Royce Hall was chosen specifically for its symbolic meaning as one of the original buildings on campus. Royce was also the site of Carnesale's inauguration last Friday...
Yesterday's protest was the third in a series dubbed the Days of Defiance, which was sponsored by the Affirmative Action Coalition...