Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their protests continued with a candle-light vigil outside of University President Neil L. Rudenstine's house around Christmas. In the end, HUCTW won, and the University was forced to give the same benefits to all of Harvard's other unions...
When NATO bombings began in early April, the Institute of Politics sponsored two panels in two days: Darryl C. Li '99 organized a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church, and the fledgling student group Impact, created to aid developing countries and to offer emergency relief, organized several benefit events...
Though a few students tried to sleep, James andElizabeth stayed up all night. Outside, thousandsmore kept vigil on the steps...
...weeks before the May 19 opening of the film, thousands of people around the United States kept a continuous vigil sleeping on dirty sidewalks and in folding lawn chairs, all to get tickets for the first show on opening day. For a moment in time, their curiosity and excited anticipation was shared by millions more, diluted throughout the nation to form a collective dream. Why were people sleeping on sidewalks...
Your story "A Curse of Cliques" [SPECIAL REPORT, May 3] was illustrated with a photograph of my son and three friends at the vigil held the day after the terrible shooting at Columbine High School. The young people were extremely shaken by the tragedy and thought this would be a way to show their support and help with the healing. But I feel your article pointed a finger at our children and put the blame on athletes, hockey kids, preppies, cheerleaders, etc., for the actions of the two individuals who snapped and took innocent lives. I wish you would have...