Word: protested
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Elizabeth A. Moreno, a member of the coalition, says the University ignored a tradition of treating sit-ins as an acceptable form of protest. "Harvard has decided to go back to the fifties," she says...
...teammate Steve Howe, Vincent huffily chastised the Yankee brass for disloyalty (though he later apologized). He peremptorily ordained that the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would shift to the National League's Western Division, while the Reds and Atlanta Braves would move east. When the Cubs took their protest to court, the commissioner's office dithered in devising the 1993 schedule. (Early last week Vincent relented, saying that the teams would stay put for at least another season...
...others, long-term costs and dangers can outweigh the benefits. "Pollution problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...
...those closest to the crisis are giving up hope. Britain's Lord Carrington, the European Community negotiator, resigned after a year of fruitless labor -- including more than 30 cease-fires, all broken. And George D. Kenney, a career diplomat who heads the State Department's Yugoslavia desk, resigned to protest America's failure to act decisively against Serbian "genocide." The London conference, he said, was "a charade...
...flag, not kneel before it; we pay taxes, not tithes. By stripping government of supernatural authority, the Founding Fathers created a zone of freedom around each individual human conscience -- or, for that matter, religious sect. They demystified government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension, protest and change. Surely the Republicans, committed as they are to "limited government," ought to honor the secular spirit that has limited our government from the moment of its birth...