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Half a dozen participants, including Harvard janitor Bedardo A. Sola, stood on a street corner near the building—wielding signs and informing passersby of their cause—during the day and slept in the Burlington Commons at night, with only water to sustain them...
...pretty vile having a Holocaust denier as a president. I feel partly responsible, because I didn't vote in the election that brought President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. Who knew the man stood any chance of winning? Who knew the man unlikely to win would use his presidency to challenge historical fact? Once he started up the whole business, I consoled myself and others by arguing this view did not represent that of most Iranians. Turns out, I was wrong...
Even at a school of overachievers, Perez stood out. She held the second highest rank in her senior class and as brigade command sergeant major was the highest-ranking minority woman in the history of West Point. She set school records as a sprinter on the track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes; soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets; underclassmen wanted to absorb a little bit of the drive...
Because neither group had obtained a demonstration permit from the University, no protests were allowed inside Soldiers Field. Instead, the peace activists protested on the small triangle of land on the southwest corner of Soldiers Field Road and North Harvard Street, while the Republicans stood on the southeast corner...
...office on July 26, the victim stated that she had little memory of the incident and “wished this whole case was dropped,” according to documents obtained by the Boston Globe.The victim stated that she woke Thomas, but “he stood up and seemed a bit out of it at first,” according to the records. Thomas might have accidentally hit her, she said, “but she could not be sure.”She later told the District Attorney that Thomas had apologized to her and her family...