Word: protested
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Some of the damage, typically, was self-inflicted; Clinton suffered another attack of premature capitulation. (He had a bad bout of it last year during the budget fight, junking his proposed BTU tax at the first sign of protest and backing off grazing-fee increases when Western Senators threatened to stampede.) The latest relapse hit, not coincidentally, when the National Governors' Association met in Washington last weekend. Clinton considers himself a lifetime member of the N.G.A. and sometimes forgets that Governors are not as important to him now, compared with members of Congress. In White House meetings, Clinton stunned allies...
...story of Harvard professors experimenting on human subjects becomes more and more disturbing by the day. Evidently, students at the Fernald School were unwittingly fed radioactive food. Outraged Harvard students have been the first to protest this ethical breach. But perhaps this story should start us Harvard students worrying about ourselves. They told the Fernald kids and their parents that the children were brighter than the others and would be members of "a Science Club." They tell us and our parents that we're the cream of the academic crop and that we attend "the top college in America." They...
...Cato in Crown Heights. The crime was a traffic accident; a car driven by a Hasidic Jew spun out of control, running onto the sidewalk and killing Cato, who was Black. Blacks then rioted for three days in Crown Heights. After the unrest had been quelled, Sharpton planned a protest march through Crown Heights, much to the dismay of Mayor David Dinkins, who feared that the demonstration would erupt into another riot. The rally proceeded without incident, primarily because the marchers were outnumbered by police officers. Sharpton made it clear that he would grab media attention, even at the expense...
...Protest is good," he said, "but the way that our generation should protest will necessarily differ from the way our Black student predecessors of the sixties protested...
...reasons we use to cover our ignorance are thin. "It's so complicated," we protest. Yet saving the Jews of German-occupied Eastern Europe would have been infinitely more complicated. After all, in Bosnia, U.N. troops are standing by as the killing continues...