Word: protesters
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...succeeding decades, students at Harvard and across the nation broadened their protest to include a call for ethnic studies departments, institutional structures to support the study of the various ethnicities that make up our national population...
...Committee to Protect Journalists--of which Kovach is a board member--may send an observer to the trial. It has been aware of the case from the beginning and has already sent letters of protest--but received no responses...
...closely written sheets. On them is his denunciation of the Nazi persecution of European Jews, to be published by evening. But word has just arrived that after Holland's bishops issued a similar statement from the pulpit, the Germans deported 40,000 Catholics of Jewish origin. If the Dutch protest cost 40,000 lives, Pius says, "my own could cost the lives of perhaps 200,000 Jews. I cannot take such a great responsibility. It is better to remain silent before the public and do in private all that is possible." He has the pages destroyed...
Child psychologists may protest that the Williams girls would have been better off exercising their free choice of careers, and thus possibly to have become the nation's first African-American sister actuaries. But I'd bet that if asked how they are taking to their oppressive, regimented, premolded lives, they would both grin the way they do when they drill a backhand into the baseline corner...
...Indulgences have long been a source of curiosity and controversy for the Catholic church. Martin Luther famously broke from St. Peter's to protest in part the tradition of exchanging indulgences for cold cash. Centuries later, a more subtle and democratic set of rules emerged, according to TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "An indulgence is a much more complicated thing than it used to be," says Van Biema. "Now, instead of just handing over some cash to shave years off your time in purgatory, you enter into a healing process with God after confessing to a sin." So tossing...