Word: protested
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...country to see what is supposed to be the best fireworks display anywhere. On the other side of the Mall, the National Symphony Orchestra plays on the Capitol Lawn. Over 500,000 people were on the Mall this year, creating a scene that looked like the Lincoln Memorial war protest in "Forrest Gump...
UNITED NATIONS: Several months after Iraq accepted an oil-for-food deal with the U.N, allowing it to sell about $2 billion worth of oil in order to buy much needed food and medicine, the deal is now entangled in U.N. negotiations and a firm U.S. protest over some unusual items on the Iraqi grocery list, specifically computers and oil-drilling and telecommunications equipment. The U.S. is also troubled by Iraq's plan to control distribution of supplies to the beleaguered Kurdish population from Baghdad, since both the U.S. and the U.N. are concerned that the Kurds...
North of the Yard, several other union members were picketing in protest of C.E. Floyd, the contractor for a renovation to the ninth floor of William James. C.E. Floyd has been the target of previous Local 40 protests, most recently for its use of non-union labor in the renovation of the Harvard-affiliated Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...fashion's Frank Lloyd Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly...
CHAI LING, 30; BOSTON; Tiananmen student-protest leader...