Word: protesting
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There were pockets of protest from booksellers around the country, mostly small independents who did not want to be seen as contributing to the author's defense fund. Nonetheless, in the first couple of hours the book was on the shelves, sales were reported as significant. The book had been kept a secret until a few weeks before publication, even from Simpson's lawyers, but no laws were broken. So-called Son of Sam statutes--still in force in many states, though the original New York law, aimed at serial killer David Berkowitz, was struck down by the Supreme Court...
...undergraduate, Corbett was chair of the Kirkland House Committee and a strong supporter of Harvard's own ROTC program. In the 1960s, Corbett says, he helped assemble counter-protest groups to "block various radical students" from protesting...
EVREUX: Loose Canon While millions gathered in Manila to greet the Pope on Jan. 15, thousands marched in cities throughout France to protest the Vatican's dismissal of Jacques Gaillot, 59, as bishop of this Normandy city. Gaillot's views diverge dramatically from those of the church's hierarchy: he endorses the use of condoms to prevent AIDS, urges tolerance of homosexuality, advocates the ordination of married men and lends his voice to local leftist causes. The so-called Red Cleric has aired his views in such venues as the flesh review Lui and a gay magazine. Said an Evreux...
...passing information to a neighbor of like interest is a push-button exercise and can easily trigger a chain reaction. The result is a mass mailing that requires neither a centralized mass mailer nor the cost of postage and paper. And the next step can be a genuine, unrehearsed protest -- grass roots, not Astroturf -- that rolls into Congress or the White House via E-mail. Gingrich promises that Thomas will take power away from lobbyists, but if so, that may just mean Thomas has taken over their dirty work. (And after all, why should lobbyists be exempt from technological unemployment...
...only way for Yeltsin to win back the sympathy of servicemen would be to buy them off with a hefty pay raise, but the government simply does not have that kind of money. Soldiers will vote in the next presidential election for a leader who will protest more vigorously the feeble overall reforms of the present government; who will express the hopes of an exhausted people for a better life, stability, law and order; and who will infuse the military with new faith in its combat potential. This leader might be Zhirinovsky or General Alexander Lebed, commander of the 14th...