Word: vigilancy
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...barricades block access to the small square in front of the building. Milling around bonfires near the parliament's entrance, wearing combat gear and carrying AK-47 assault rifles, are militiamen loyal to the republic's separatist government. At other bonfires in nearby Cathedral Square, hundreds of Latvians stand vigil through the night, listening to passionate music and somber poetry blaring from loudspeakers...
Instead, I'll tell them, I was at the intersection of Mount Auburn and Dunster Streets, flirting with frostbite and death at the hands of some unsuspecting driver, trying frantically to reach Harvard Square before the clock struck midnight. There was a candlelight vigil for peace there, and all of the sudden, I had decided...
...remember arriving at the vigil only seconds after the clock above Cambridge Trust turned to 12:00. I waited around for a few minutes. I even joined the protesters in a few bars of "Give Peace a Chance...
...Feelings vary from house to house," said Eliot House resident Thomas J. Tucker '91, who said supports the troops. "There was applause for a vigil supporting the troops in the [Eliot House] dining hall. But that's definitely a stronger advocacy than I have...
Activist M. Scott Murphy '92 said he had plans for a 24-hour peace center in the Harvard Science Center modeled after the MIT vigil, pending approval from the administration. He described the anti-war effort at Harvard as much less organized than its counterparts at nearby universities...