Word: protesters
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Since 1992, Springsteen has released only one album of new music, the fairly boring and indifferently-received The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), which told long stories with underlying messges of social protest to the accompanying of a softlystrummed guitar, and which sold only 585,000 copies: small change for a giant like Springsteen, whose 1984 release Born in the U.S.A. was one of the best-selling albums of all time. But in the year Joad was released, Springsteen issued his first Greatest Hits compilation, which sold a healthy 2.2 million copies, followed last year by a live album...
...writing to protest the way the Undergraduate Council elections are being handled by the election commission and The Crimson...
...four weeks from now, when I'm sweating out the Panthers-Colts game because those 500 brownie points hang in the balance, don't think I'll forget how the officials tainted those two games. If I should come out on the short end, I suppose I'll protest the pool and argue for a revision of the standings...
...three years later, Harvard still owns more than $34 million in Shell stock. Student protests continue today. On Nov. 10 (the anniversary of Mr. Saro-Wiwa's execution), the Environmental Action Committee organized student protests on the steps of Widener and in front of the local Shell station. These were part of an international day of protest against Shell's involvement in Nigeria. Like Mr. Sachs and the 1995 council, we urge Harvard to join us in censure of Shell Oil by fully divesting itself of all Shell stock. BENJAMIN D. TOLCHIN '01, DANIEL M. HENNEFELD '99, DANIELLE C. SCHINDLER...
...cites Epps' role in defusing tensions in 1972, when students seized the president's office to protest Harvard's ties to the Gulf Oil Company, which operated a refinery in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola...