Word: vigil
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Hebah M. Ismail ’06 of the Palestine Solidarity Committee said last night that the group is not planning a vigil for Arafat...
...wake of the presidential election, Harvard students joined more than 100 other political protesters yesterday in Copley Square for the Rally and Vigil for Democracy...
Meanwhile, Black Students Association President Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 said his group is co-sponsoring a candlelight vigil in Boston Common this Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., featuring escaped Sudanese slave Francis Bok. The event aims to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide, Adjah said...
...Highlands have denounced him (under duress, he says). He admits to having been in contact with highlanders but says the organizers informed him that they planned to demonstrate nonviolently and rejected his counsel to wait till the fall. Ksor says he also suggested they call it a prayer vigil, not a protest. International attention, not an independent state, Ksor adds, was the goal. However, he didn't help his cause by claiming later that 400 people were "massacred" over the Easter weekend. This wild estimate was a gambit, he says, to force Hanoi to open the region to external observers...
...schools suspend classes and other business on Sept. 11 after the morning’s terrorist attacks, though many remain partially open to provide the community with a gathering place. In the evening, more than 3,000 gather in front of Memorial Church for a University-wide vigil. Harvard follows the lead of most professional and collegiate teams and cancels all of its intercollegiate athletic contests through the weekend...