Word: shocks
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...demonstrations are designed to shock. "We expect tempers to run high," says Jay Blotcher, an ACT UP spokesman. "We target Roman Catholicism because no other religion so energetically tries to influence public policy." Outside four Catholic churches in Los Angeles last week, ACT UP protesters offered free condoms and safe-sex pamphlets to parishioners. Members of the group have occupied drug-company offices to demand lower prices for AIDS medicines, chained themselves to a banister at the New York Stock Exchange, and staged same-sex "kiss-ins" at last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions...
Leverett students responded mainly with revulsion, shock and disappointment, Lucas and officials said last week. "The students have shared concerns expressed in the letter," said Senior Tutor Elizabeth B. Keeney. "There has been a positive response to the letter, and people are using the incident constructively...
THESE leaders-in-exile are young (Liu Yan is 19), and the shock of what they have gone through has been exacerbated by their sudden departure from their homeland and subsequent adjustment to life in the United States. A great burden has been put on these people's shoulders: in addition to dealing with their own ghosts, they are being asked to speak for those who died. They are not permitted to grow beyond June 4, and yet they are looked to for dynamic, continuing leadership...
...student leaders as a selfish, grasping generation was offensive to me and, I think, to many who watched scenes like Weilin Wang's confrontation with a column of tanks and the frequent turning-back of military advances by throngs of peaceful citizens. (Wuer Kaixi and Oscar Hsu expressed their shock at his statement in their remarks that night...
REFERRING to intifada statistics for shock value, out of historical context, would be irresponsible--if only the context were different. In the past, Israeli Jews might have been able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But we can no longer fixate upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military...