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...sure certain people on campus would agree. Three words: Evening With Champions. How much are those guys salivating right now? That could be the biggest candlelight vigil surrounding a prospective student since those Star Wars fans a few years...
...dismal conditions of Iraqi civilians under the weight of U.N. sanctions. She believes that Western policies have exacerbated the suffering. Her opposition to war with Iraq has taken her to protests in Washington, Nashville and Macon, Ga. Last month she joined women from across the U.S. in their vigil in Washington's Lafayette Park. For two days they subsisted only on coffee and took cover from the cold and rain under flimsy plastic tarps. Meeker says she intends to return to fast again...
...closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar activists spread the word and enlist recruits through the websites and e-mail lists launched during the anti-globalization movement of the late '90s. "The dialogue is happening at a much faster pace than in the past," she says. "There's so much...
...campus vigil is planned for later that evening...
Participants voiced a variety of goals for the vigil...