Word: protesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week. "I am not going anywhere to seek support," said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "I am going to explain our position." Her message: The U.S. welcomes allies, but will take to the skies alone if necessary. In Paris she managed to wring an agreement from France not to protest in public if the U.S. hits Saddam, but Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov refused to cooperate even that much...
...League has been one of the loudest voices in the chorus of complaints against Starbucks. It has organized a campaign against the chain and holds protest signs and distributes leaflets outside the cafe daily...
...Warren, who is Native American. The racial makeup of the HLS Faculty has been an issue before as well: in 1989, Harvard dismissed Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell after 18 years of teaching because the noted expert on race and law refused to end his leave in protest of the absence of minority women on HLS faculty...
...musical's subject matter has not surprisingly provoked controversy. Relatives of the murder victims objected to what they feared would be the glorification of Agron, and they staged a protest at the show's first performance. Some members of the Latino community have complained that a white songwriter is perpetuating Puerto Rican stereotypes. "My fear is that the general public is going to see this as another Puerto Rican with a knife, and they will come out with that view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show...
...group of 40 concerned neighbors met last Tuesday night at the Swedenborg Chapel located at the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets to protest Harvard's plans to construct a new 80,000 square foot academic building just feet behind the chapel's walls...