Word: protesting
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...want to live here, after all, because it is a relatively clean, safe and vibrant neighborhood--qualities due in no small part to the existence of Harvard. Perhaps they might consider the rationale behind expensive apartments: people want to live here. I'm sure that none of them would protest for cheap housing in New Haven. Cambridge, in fact, might have been a similar slum had the University not purchased and improved upon a great deal of the city over the past century...
Zirin had an active week of recruitment. On Thursday, she was distributing "Build the Fight!" fliers at the rally to protest the administration's takeover of Phillips Brooks House (PBH). So it must have been an act of reciprocity, if not solidarity, that PBH showed up to support the divestment movement. Shoshans L.H. Weiner '98, chair of PBH's Committee on Housing Rights, lent her organization's support and promised that of "the most important part of Harvard, the students...
...council initially refused to increase its allocation to this group, largely because a high percentage of those who give blood and receive the shirts are not undergraduates but reconsidered after all other groups were given the chance to protest their grants...
...recent $1,000-a-plate fund raiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel. (Levin did not attend.) And after grabbing headlines for condemning Disney's Miramax Films for the movie Priest and making a huge to-do over selling $15,000 worth of his wife's Disney stock in protest, Dole took a $4,000 contribution from the company in August. Last year Dole's Campaign America fund took in $79,000 from the entertainment industry...
FRANCE HAS THE HIGHEST CONSUMPtion of tranquilizers in Europe, and these days it's easy to see why. For more than a week, striking transport workers, joined by postal and utilities employees, have brought the country to a virtual standstill to protest the government's new social-welfare reforms. University students are striking and marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office...