Word: protested
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...Simpson's paradox" in introductory statistics is an outcome that seems counterintuitive upon first inspection. On Monday night, a Simpson's paradox happened, and it wasn't only because the target of a pro-legal immigration protest was a man named Simpson...
...open letter to the Harvard community signed by 20 of the minority groups at Harvard and the information distributed by the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition created the massive energy. Even those people who were just there because they were curious either joined the protest or read the fliers. People flocked to sign a petition asking the Judiciary Committee in the Congress to split Simpson's bill...
...they came back and dropped thousands of leaflets. In fact, people watched from Malecon [Havana's oceanfront promenade] as MiGs made warning passes against their planes. People were criticizing the Cuban air force. We reported each and every violation to the United States in a diplomatic protest. We warned U.S. officials time and again. We had been patient, but there are limits...
...ongoing, into whether Basulto's license should be suspended. But that did not deter him from his anti-Castro campaign. According to records the Cuban government provided TIME, the Brothers entered Cuban airspace more than a dozen times in 1994 and '95, and Cuba said it made a diplomatic protest on most occasions. Then, on Jan. 9 and 13 of this year, Basulto repeated his stunt of dropping leaflets on Havana. "It was so humiliating," Castro told TIME. "The U.S. would not have tolerated it if Washington's airspace had been violated by small airplanes...
...course, there are detractors: groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which protests that uniforms are unconstitutional; parents who bemoan the supposed high costs of uniforms; and children who protest that they will lose their "individuality" and "personality" if forced to wear plaid...