Word: protested
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...least seven non-Harvard affiliated groups, including the radical ACT UP and Queer Nation, will rally in the Square on Commencement Day to protest speaker Gen. Colin L. Powell and the ban on gays in the military, Harvard anti-ban activists said yesterday...
...This isn't a one-shot deal," he said. "This is a struggle that will have to be fought in the long haul. This protest meeting we're having is a good start... Things will go on after that. It's by no means the culmination of our activities...
...trial on four of the most serious of six charges of corruption and election-law violations. The votes came either from his old cronies or from opposition legislators who want to force new elections. Thousands of people took to the streets in Rome, Milan, Genoa and other cities to protest that cowardly display of cynicism. Ciampi, 72, who has no party affiliation and who is an ex- Governor of the Bank of Italy, vowed to soldier...
When Glanton and the board petitioned the court for permission to sell, there was an explosion of protest from museum professionals and critics -- among them, Thomas Freudenheim, the Smithsonian Institution's under secretary for museums, who condemned the plan as "in direct conflict with the museum's archival and research function." The consensus outside the foundation was that the Barnes collection was a national treasure, which ought to be preserved in every detail. Besides, the sale would have flagrantly contradicted Barnes' stated wishes -- "No picture belonging to the collection," runs the foundation's charter, "shall ever be loaned, sold...
BORIS YELTSIN CALLED THE RESULTS A "SENSAtion," and he was right in more ways than one. As the embattled Russian President celebrated victory in a nationwide referendum, some 3,000 angry procommunists took to the streets of Moscow Saturday in an unusually violent protest. They clashed with riot police, leaving at least 150 demonstrators and police injured. And while preliminary results gave Yeltsin a 58% vote of confidence and a surprisingly high 53% approval for his economic reforms, political opponents denounced the vote as meaningless; he failed to get the absolute majority of all registered voters needed to force early...