Word: vigil
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...candlelight vigil last night, students from across the Boston area gathered to call for divestment, both by their colleges and the state of Massachusetts, from companies tied to the genocidal government of Sudan...
...April 23, 1978, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Pusey Library to demand divestment during a closed-door meeting of the Harvard Corporation during which stock policy for the year was to be determined. During the same period, students took up a ‘round-the-clock vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. Mahan and Terry propose the passive, negative protest of withholding an extremely valuable donation to financial aid initiatives that some 20 percent of the senior class would fail to make anyway. Much more would be accomplished, both in terms of raising awareness of the crisis in Darfur...
...worth up to €500,000 a day. Vittorio Pisani, head of the city's police investigative unit, says the vast majority of Neapolitans would love to see the Camorra destroyed. Indeed, on Saturday street protesters in Naples held a candlelight [an error occurred while processing this directive] vigil, and in December other protesters sprawled out under mock bloody sheets to denounce the killings. Still, Pisani says, "Most people are simply too scared to speak up." It wasn't always like this. In the 1990s, Naples experienced a momentary renaissance as tourism boomed and civic pride swelled in the wake...
...rerun, although many deputies expect that to happen in mid-December. The Supreme Court, which has final jurisdiction over elections, will examine the fraud allegations and make its ruling this week. But news that Yanukovych would not be inaugurated caused jubilation in Kiev, where hundreds of thousands continued their vigil. "Nobody will stop us now," exulted Vasily, a Kiev engineer...
...hope that [Summers] will say a few words about the gravest humanitarian crisis of this decade,” Cavanagh, who did not attend the vigil, wrote in an e-mail...