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...abelson and others passed out signs and buttons to anyone that would accept, many people walked by with their heads down, picking up their pace as the protesters pleaded to "join them for a few moments to vigil for peace...
...while a good number of those driving by the vigil honked loudly and flashed "thumbs-up" signs to the protesters, a few verbally illustrated their disdain for the protest, yelling profanities out the windows of their cars...
...clock struck midnight last night signalling the probable imminency of war, about 130 demonstrators gathered outside the Harvard Cooperative Society for an impromptu candlelight vigil that turned into a peace march...
...date heralds what the antiwar groups hope will be the start of an intensive peace campaign. The Military Families Support Network will begin a vigil the day before in front of the White House, and the Women's Peace Group will start a fast. On Jan. 19 and 26, rallies and marches are planned for the streets of the capital. Says Massachusetts activist Tekla Lewin: "George Bush and his advisers are doing everything they can to plug their ears. This will be a way to get heard." The sound is still far from deafening -- but it does keep growing louder...
...throwing money at fads; in making presents rather than buying them; in savoring the lessons of the season, about generosity and devotion and mercy. Whatever the state of the economy, it would have been hard to waltz blithely through the holidays while the families of 280,000 troops kept vigil. As it is, the burdens, and hopes, of the season will be widely shared...