Word: vigil
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...with news reports but with music--as if a mellifluous melody could somehow soothe the anxieties of a leaderless populace, a commanderless army and a watching world. And so it was when Hafez Assad died last week. Syrian state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation of 17 million and made it, well, still poor but nevertheless a pivotal player in the Middle East...
With McGaw, Milikowsky and Pusey at the Coalition's helm, they have also helped draw greater attention to already-existing campus events. Last year's Take Back the Night rally--a vigil honoring victims of sexual assault and raising awareness about safety on campus--attracted more than 250 supporters...
...Black Students Association (BSA), the Black Men's Forum (BMF) and the Harvard African Students' Association led weeks of activity that included numerous protests, a candlelit vigil and forums in which prominent black leaders like attorney Johnnie Cochran and the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke about racial issues...
...Grapes return to the dining hall following a pro-grape vote in the Great Grape Referendum. In the weeks before the vote, grape supporters faced off against vigil-holding activists trying to raise awareness about the poor labor conditions for grape farm workers...
These are some of the major causes, but the groups overlap, and with more than 600 organizations, endless agendas were touted. The groups supporting venous causes planned their own events on different days. Spiritual groups organized a vigil on April 9 to call for debt forgiveness for the Third World. Unions held a rally outside Congress Wednesday. Smaller groups like Alabama Artisans for Social Justice, the Anti-Boredom Brigade and the Guerrilla Gardeners found their...