Word: protested
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...protest of the military's ban on gays, the committee recommended that the University stop reimbursing MIT for the costs of Harvard students cross-registered in their ROTC program. But it also recommended that Harvard continue accepting ROTC scholarships...
HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...
According to Evans, the decision was not meant to protest the celebration of Columbus Day. It was "purely pragmatic," he said...
Carrying signs with messages such as "500 years of oppression" and Discovery of genocide?," more than 50 demonstrators congregated yesterday on the steps of Widener Library to protest the celebration of Columbus...
...protest, no one would ever advocate the changes proposed above? Not true. Boston's formerly all-male clubs are now the focus of a women's campaign to expunge all traces of white male culture from the clubs' ambience. The situation in Boston foreshadows what would happen if Harvard's final clubs caved in to the constant pressure, and reveals the real problem with such integration...