Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozen students join a Central Square community protest of a proposed luxury apartment complex on the site of several local businesses. The proposed construction is one element of an ongoing gentrification of the Central Square area...
...Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard, we welcome both the Chinese president and his critics. From Jiang, we expect words of historic importance. From his critics, we hope to see a vociferous and memorable protest...
...Solomon Amendment, this fiscal year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school's right to uphold its on-campus non-discrimination policy...
...handful of students participatedin a five-day hunger strike in protest ofBunting-Smith's refusal to allow an unlimitednumber of seniors to live off-campus. The crisiswas rooted in student disagreement with thePresident's steadfast conception of the RadcliffeHouse system...
...Faced with such stinging criticism from the man he tapped to head the inquiry, all CIA director George Tenet could do was mutely protest that "no one was asleep at the switch." A better defense might be simply to point out the agency's location: After all, who in Washington would believe that politicians keep their promises...