Word: walkout
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...after a squadron of American stealth bombers opened the war with a failed decapitation attack against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03 spent the morning making last-minute preparations for a student walkout from classes to protest the war. As a leading member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), he helped bring about 1,000 students, professors and others to a midday anti-war rally in Harvard Yard...
...walkout was the culmination of smaller demonstrations Harvard students and been participating in for months...
...HIPJ’s first moves in December was to organize a walkout to be held on the first...
Though President Bush’s initial decision to go to war is already being executed, much more remains to be decided concerning the duration and scale of the attack. Large and visible protests, such as the walkout yesterday, can and should influence such decisions. Hopefully, such popular outcries will be heeded in the minds of future presidents and policymakers, and serve to temper the dangerous precedent set by the current...
...Some participants accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - which originally opposed arming pilots - of designing a program so rule-bound and cumbersome that it was guaranteed to fail. At one point, according to pilots who talked to TIME on background, there was even talk of a mass walkout...