Word: protesting
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...more money, but since that's about as likely as Tibetan Yak-racing becoming an Olympic sport, we obviously need another source of labor. My suggestion is to take all students ad-boarded for disciplinary offenses, chain them together and let them shovel. The Harvard Civil Liberties Union might protest, but by the time they get an injunction, it'll be spring...
Instead of discussing the solutions of the future, campus Democrats have spent their energy protecting the programs of the past. If Harvard Democrats think that America and Americans are doing just fine, then they are right to single-mindedly protest Republican tampering with perfection. Yet we all know America is in dire need of new ideas--and Harvard Democrats need to speak out with their vision of the future...
Kaufman suggests that Cambridge residents want to live here mainly because Harvard has made it a "clean, safe and vibrant neighborhood" and asks if anyone would protest for affordable housing in New Haven. But while this is arguably true of Harvard Square and its surroundings, it is by no means true of all the 700 units that Harvard owns. Is Kaufman suggesting that people would rather not be able to live in a home at all than live in someplace less "vibrant" than Harvard Square? Cambridge residents lived in Cambridge long before Harvard bought a large amount of its current...
...domestic violence, to the exclusion of any other issues in the trial, has also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture"--a statement that some listeners interpreted as "Go back to Africa...
...views about Simpson's guilt and the issue of domestic violence. Soon she was being featured on the evening news, Nightline and Larry King Live. On the day of the verdict, Bruce turned out 1,500 supporters for a candlelight vigil in Westwood; three days later, she led a protest march of 5,000 through Simpson's Brentwood neighborhood...