Word: vigilance
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...tensions in the Middle East escalated yesterday, members of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Society for Arab Students (SAS) said they were planning events to maintain positive relations between the two communities even though plans for a joint vigil earlier this week failed due to differing objectives...
...President Rayd K. Abu-Ayyash '01 said the vigil was solely for mourning the violence and was not political in nature. He noted that the ASA and Harvard Hillel held separate vigils, but said holding separate events wasn't a sign of antagonism between the two groups...
Participants and organizers of last night's event said they were satisfied with the vigil, which drew a wide variety of students...
Lisa A. Setrakian '04, whose family is partly Lebanese, said the vigil "was absolutely successful, especially the volume of non-Arab participants which speaks so highly of what people's faith can accomplish...
Allegra Pacheco, an Israeli human rights lawyer, gave an introductory speech at the vigil, describing what she called a "chain of suffering and violence" in the Middle East...