Word: vigil
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When Alabama churches started going up in flame in February 2006, nightmare visions of marauding Ku Klux Klansmen and Satanists, - the first attacking black churches, the second, white churches - sped through the popular imagination. Both groups have been active in Alabama history; and so the devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk...
...energized games--and the children's hospital wards he visited--over the past three years. In New Jersey for the NCAA tournament, Ray was struck by an SUV before the game while returning to his hotel from a convenience store and suffered massive internal injuries. After a three-day vigil that prompted prayers across the country, the business student died at Hackensack University hospital...
Tiny tealights flickered on the steps of Memorial Church last night, the wind choking a flame every now and then, as students remembered the soldiers and civilians who had been killed in the war in Iraq. The vigil was one in a series of campus events staged by student groups to mark the fourth anniversary of the war’s beginning. At the vigil, students read statements written by friends of slain American soldiers, followed by a short silence from the audience, which numbered more than 50. Earlier, members of the Harvard College Democrats and other students spent...
...bragging rights, displays of pride, latin mottos, and face painting. Head over to Annenberg; if you’re quadded, enjoy it and take pictures of all your friends who are in the gulag—er, Mather. Next year, you’ll need them for your candlelight vigil once they disappear off the face of the earth. At most colleges the person that you ultimately are shaped into is determined through long bouts of reflection and tempering the inner metal of your being in the fire of self-doubt. Luckily, Harvard spares you this. Instead...
...February 5, 2007, James L. Sherley, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), decided that he too should begin a hunger strike to bring peace, harmony, and justice to the world. So, after two final bowls of Chex Cereal, Sherley began his vigil against the oppressors which comprise the administration of MIT. The university that had refused to grant the poor man tenure would be forced to watch...