Word: protesting
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Perhaps scenting blood in President Milosevic's recent concessions, protesters in Belgrade are vowing to press on. "It's only the first round," opposition leader Vesna Pesic told demonstrators who returned to the streets for a 79th straight day of protests. "We have to change the entire system, step by step, until liberty. We demand economic reform, we demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed...
Mansfield said that the interruption of that class last year was "really quite worrisome" and "the first time that a professor's classes were actually invaded in order to make a protest...
Phillips was one of the organizers of a fall 1995 protest in Mansfield's class, Moral Reasoning 13: "Realism and Moralism." The protest was held by students in response to Mansfield's criticism of "Diversity and Learning," Rudenstine's report defending racial-preference programs in employment and education...
Celebrities who publicly embrace worthy causes sometimes seem to be auditioning less for Sense and Sensibility than for Clueless. Stars have dangled from bridges to protest logging practices, hawked clothes made in sweatshops while promoting moral values and slugged pesky photographers even as they were begging for kindness to animals. A recent surge of show-biz interest in children, however, seems to be as well aimed as it is high profile. More than half a dozen organizations founded or funded by Hollywood celebrities are zeroing in on kids' issues. And early childhood development is one of their top concerns...
SOFIA, Bulgaria: Bulgarians are finding out that democracy can be an unwieldy thing. Citizens have staged 22 days of protests in a bid to un-elect the now reviled Socialists, and elected a president, Petar Stoyanov, who they hoped would find a way to ease the Socialists from power. But when it came to the formation of his Parliament, Stoyanov Tuesday came up against the country's constitution, which requires him to offer the mandate of government to the largest party. The Socialists accepted. There is hope, however, that their new rule will be conciliatory. Party leadership has since offered...