Word: vigil
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Concepcion is not alone. She is joined in her daily (and nightly) vigil by her friend William Thomas, whom she met over a decade ago after he was thrown out of Britain for destroying his passport and declaring himself stateless. (Thomas, Concepcion says, is in court on this Wednesday after being arrested for calling the police "fucking fascists...
April 8, 1992 The CCR protesters leave Clark's office after a 25-hour vigil and issue a list of demands for a more diverse faculty. Approximately 50 Law School students gather to support the 'Griswold Nine' as they leave Clark's office...
April 10, 1992 More than 60 members of the Coalition for Civil Rights and their supporters from other graduate schools hold a silent vigil in support of 13 students facing Administrative Board charges for the Fried and Clark...
...same article failed to identify the organizers of yesterday's Bosnia vigil. It was co-sponsored by a number of groups, including Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Harvard Human Crisis Watch, the Harvard Philosophy Project, Harvard Islamic Society, Amnesty International at Harvard, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Coalition for Peace in Bosnia...
Alberto Simpser '95, one of the coordinators of the candlelight vigil, said he organized the event to "express our concern over the tragedy in Bosnia and the lack of an appropriate U.S. response...