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...in” at noon this Friday, and co-sponsor an anti-war rally with the Harvard Democrats, the Harvard Libertarians, and other campus groups on March 19. When the event began, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd walked by and reprimanded the demonstrators for protesting without a permit. “She came up to me and said, ‘You guys can’t do this, you guys have to get out of here,’” said Kyle A. Krahel ’08, a founding member of HAWC...
...Lowering Sarkozy's profile in the campaign may have helped the right: First-round voting nationally showed leftists beating conservatives by 47.05% to 45.29% - a margin far closer than the tidal wave of protest that had been predicted in opinion polling. Little wonder, then, that Fillon and other conservative leaders applauded the initial outcome as "balanced," and denounced leftist claims that constituted a rebuke of Sarkozy as as "partisan politics that don't correspond to local realities...
...Unusually for a country that places a premium on stability, clashes between police and voters marred the polling. In the northern state of Terengganu, which the National Front held, police sprayed tear gas on hundreds of PAS demonstrators who had gathered to protest what they believed was electoral fraud committed by the National Front...
Over the last five years, artists have been gathering en masse to attack President Bush and his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The protest song as a genre has been picked clean: artists have circled its corpse like vultures, eager to scavenge every shred of meat they can find. All the preaching of Neil Young, Bright Eyes, and Rise Against, however, can’t come close to matching the depth of insight and feeling offered by The OaKs on their new album, “Songs For Waiting...
Even more stunning is “War Changes Everything,” a protest song so spot-on in its commentary that it instantly makes all others from this century redundant. A description of how war corrupts and changes people, it springs from Costello’s own experiences but is universal in its impact. When he sings “I’ve sat alone on a mountaintop in a foreign land and wondered at how foolish humans are / Always at war,” one hopes that some future or current politician is paying attention...