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...Engineers caused the flood, not Katrina. That puts the burden on Washington to help, he says. The breached levee, shored up with sandbags, is still leaking onto city streets. "It's very frustrating," says Sherry, "to the point where we've talked of going to Washington for a peaceful protest just to say, 'You've forgotten...
...protector in the situation…I’m going to do whatever it takes to get to what I’m trying to do.” Guns frequently appear in action movie ads, 50 says, and with little protest. “They are pointing at me at this point because there are certain standards placed on music as an art form that aren’t applied to any other forms of entertainment,” he explains. “Because I’m coming from music, they feel like it?...
...Boston. The students and janitors gathered by the Science Center at 3:30 p.m. yesterday, then turned to march through Harvard Yard to Holyoke Center. The group ignored a warning by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and two University police officers that they were not registered protesters and were not permitted to proceed. The protesters then rode buses to the Harvard Club on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave., where a large crowd assembled. Courtney Snegroff, an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, estimated that more than 200 workers and their...
Business leaders are losing patience with Sanford's vetoes of budget items like trade centers and tourism marketing. Even G.O.P. bosses charge that he is worse at economic development than at grandstanding, as when he visited the legislature last year carrying piglets to protest what he considered pork-barrel spending...
...Furthermore, the protestors should not have used inflammatory rhetoric—such as shouting taunts like “Anti-Semite” in mid-speech—to obscure the real debate. Many onlookers at the speech repeatedly disrupted the lecture, heckling, shouting rebuttals, and holding florescent posters protesting Finkelstein’s stated views. One disturbance even forced him to stop speaking temporarily. Besides inhibiting free debate, the protestors’ actions also violated HLS’s Protest and Dissent Guidelines. The guidelines explicitly state that, “A dissenter must not substantially interfere with...