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...which occurred this year in mid-April. One of the central events planned by RUS, the project intended to raise awareness about domestic violence ultimately had a weak impact on campus. Workshops and speakers had sparse attendance; the rally, supposedly the cornerstone of the week, was merely a candlelight vigil which quietly went unnoticed to many...
...argument with her father when he wouldn't let her fly from Tahiti to Canada, where he was filming The Freshman, and she responded by driving her Jeep into a ditch at high speed. Brando then had her flown to a Los Angeles hospital, where he kept a bedside vigil after her extensive surgery...
They arrived by the dozens to mourn, but not all were wearing black. Among the 200 people who flocked to Mount Carmel, Texas, last Wednesday for a vigil commemorating the second anniversary of the Waco blaze were strutting men bedecked in camouflage. They were members of the North Texas Constitutional Militia, a paramilitary group, and they brought with them a granite stone carved with the names of the victims who died when the Branch Davidian cult went up in flames on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff with the Federal Government. An 11-year-old niece of polygamist...
...mind-set that can entertain the notion that the Federal Government would car-bomb its own day-care center in order to disrupt a ragtag vigil is a mind-set that won't easily be appeased by government denials. After a 1993 investigation, the Justice Department blamed the Davidians for the suicidal fire and absolved the FBI of responsibility. Various groups of survivors and families of victims have initiated lawsuits against the Federal Government, seeking more than $1.5 billion in total damages. One group has hired former Attorney General and leftish advocate Ramsey Clark to handle its case...
...staff engages in the same misrepresentation of the pro-life camp that it decries when it focuses on the "fringe" in the movement that "harasses and intimidates women entering clinics." If a woman is "intimidated" by an elderly bishop leading a quiet prayer vigil, perhaps it's not the protesters that are bothering her. Perhaps it's her conscience...