Word: protesting
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...Bill Clinton, the rear guard of the welfare state, who represents the past. It's Bob Dole who represents the future. After all, if the Clinton budgets had been adopted without protest, the deficit would continue to increase. Increasing interest on the national debt, coupled with the out-of-control entitlements Bill Clinton has so successfully campaigned on, would mean that by 2002, there would be no room in the federal budget for any domestic spending at all--even The Crimson's precious jobs bill--without a huge tax increase. And who would bear the brunt of that? The very...
According to an MIT Arab Student Organization press release distributed at the protest, the opening of the tunnel under the Al-Aqsa mosque was the specific action which prompted this protest...
BOSTON--Members of the Arab, Arab-American and Muslim communities in Boston came together at Government Center yesterday to protest what they described as ongoing Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza...
...Seoul and its ally, the U.S., the sub is an intelligence prize: very little is known about the primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused...
...antiabortion activists, however, it is a disaster. RU-486 can be given in a doctor's office rather than an abortion clinic, so protesters won't know where to set up their picket lines. The drug does have some serious drawbacks: it has to be taken within seven weeks of a woman's last menstrual period; it fails about 5% of the time; and it can have side effects, including cramping, nausea and severe bleeding. In Europe it is used for only about 20% of all abortions. But in the U.S., where women routinely run protest gauntlets at clinic doors...