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...Layoffs Campaign (NLC), an activist group formed in opposition to staff reductions and budget cuts across the University, is calling on professors to protest plans to slash jobs and services at the Harvard College Library...
...Justice Department is now pressing criminal charges against Greenpeace for authorizing the protest. If found guilty, the group could lose its tax-exempt status...
...case is drawing considerable attention, in part because it is nearly unprecedented for an organization to face criminal charges for the non-violent protest activities of its members. Greenpeace has suggested that the case might even be a first in this respect. Some legal experts disagree, however, citing a particularly proud chapter in our nation’s history—harassment of the NAACP by southern states during the 1950s...
...architectural center, and a close adviser to Delanoë. "Later we can do the gastronomy." Some people don't like the menu. No surprise there: Parisians have always been ferociously protective of their skyline. In 1887, writers Alexandre Dumas fils and Guy de Maupassant were among the artists to protest the construction of "a gigantic black factory chimney" now known as the Eiffel Tower. After losing that battle, Maupassant favored the restaurant at the base - it was the only place where the tower didn't mar his view. Parisians eventually grew to love that monument, but they've never accepted...
...work to provoke discussion if no one saw it. Possibly the most debated works of 2003 were The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's unfinished movie about the Crucifixion; The Reagans, a TV biopic that no one outside CBS saw before the network canceled it under protest; and Daniel Libeskind's World Trade Center rebuilding design, which spent most of the year on the redrawing board...