Word: protested
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...time, it was unclear what effect the enactment of the committee's recommendations would have. Some faculty members expressed hope that then-President-elect Bill Clinton would stick to his promise of lifting the ban on gays in the military, rendering any Harvard action committed in protest of the ban moot...
...gathering was called to protest black attacks on white farmers and the government's failure to increase the price of corn. It also provided a rousing springboard for the so-called Committee of Generals, who the next day formally launched the Afrikaner Volksfront, a bid to unite more than 20 political, cultural and worker groups. The aim, says General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald: to win an Afrikaner state containing roughly 16% of South African territory, if necessary by acts of civil disobedience or force of arms. Says Groenewald: "What we will contemplate . . . is to declare our independence and secede." Despite...
With Vietnam, American liberalism entered a period of profound isolationism. Just about every subsequent intervention, from Nicaragua to Kuwait, aroused loud liberal protest. The high-water mark was reached on Jan. 12, 1991, when Democrats led the fight to deny President Bush authority to use force against Iraq -- and came within three votes of carrying the Senate...
...Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost his job at Harvard Law School after taking an extended leave to protest the lack of minority women on the faculty, is also working on a TV project for PBS that deals with the Declaration of Independence...
Nearly 500 first-year students signed a petition in support of Hicks that was circulated at the Harvard Union on Wednesday, and about 25 students and coworkers attended a meeting that evening to protest Hicks' termination...