Word: vigil
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After two possible hate crimes last week against Harvard students, about 150 students, ministers, faculty and local residents turned out for an hour-long silent vigil against violence yesterday in the Square...
...silent vigil was organized by the Harvard United Ministry in response to an assault last Tuesday on a Muslim student and an assault last Sunday on three Harvard students. In both cases, Cambridge police are investigating the attacks as hate crimes and describe the assailants as possible skinheads...
...vigil was also protesting a general "climate that encourages violence," according to Rev. Irving Cummings, an American Baptist minister at Memorial Church...
...talk among protesters was now of jail solidarity. Many prisoners were refusing to give their names or eat. The marchers around the building maintained a peaceful vigil throughout the day, and even worked out a deal with the police...
...trope of liberals who are tired of being dismissed in a political culture that makes "moderation" the pre-eminent virtue. Ideological taxonomists will find the lineup of shadow convention speakers--from Jesse Jackson to Paul Wellstone--eerily predictable and not particularly transcendent. All that's missing is a candlelight vigil for the Scottsboro Boys...