Word: protesting
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...second generation of Christians, not events as experienced by the original apostles. That whole approach is undercut by the purported discovery announced in January of what would be the oldest manuscript of a Gospel, which dates to A.D. 70, when many eyewitnesses would have been around to protest any inaccuracies...
WOULD THE WEST ALLOW THIS CARNAGE to go on if Algeria were not a Muslim country? Algerians wonder why there was not a word of protest at the rape of democratic process in that country. In fact the West seems scared by the rise of Islamic nationalism, and could not accept the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in the Algerian elections. If the international community wants cordial relations with the inhabitants of the region stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans, then it has to respect the aspirations of the Muslim masses...
Rock is good for rage, lust and protest. But for angst, yearning and existential misery, nothing beats the blues. That's why many young musicians are adding a blue tint to new albums such as British-born screecher PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," Houston native Chris Whitley's "Din of Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash...
...compact disc. That is, unless you're an Ec concentrator--then it means certificate of deposit. But to the Harvard student of the early sixties, CD stood for civil defense was at the core of an intense political, psychological and scientific debate that prompted 500 Harvard students to protest in front of the White House while others wrote editorials and responses to editorials back in Cambridge...
Several thousand Spanish fishermen pelted the Canadian Embassy in Madrid with raw eggs and dead mackerel to protest what they said was Canada's harassment of Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic. In the latest turn in the month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended...