Word: protestations
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...Boston teenagers marched last Monday down the city's famed Freedom Trail, past Paul Revere's home, to the office of Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci. They were armed with 800 letters of protest and a simple demand: that the Governor sit for the standardized test that will soon decide which students graduate from the state's public high schools. When an aide told them there was no time in his schedule--the test takes more than 18 hours--the students handed over a poster-size report card on the Governor's program to raise academic performance. His marks: an incomplete...
...Draskovic may once have been the opposition leader most threatening to Milosevic, as he led hundreds of thousands of protesters through the streets of Belgrade in the winter of 1996. But Milosevic managed to draw him into a national unity government during the Kosovo war, and his continued feuding with rival oppositionists, and the government's seizure of the Belgrade TV station he controlled, appear to have pushed him to the margins. It isn't only Draskovic that's on the skids, however; it's the very idea of overthrowing Milosevic. "The center of gravity of opposition has not only...
Despite our inherent love of conflict, it's tough for most Americans to root for a group that launches its protest by chanting "Rats have Rights!" But that's exactly what the folks over at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are planning to do outside the CBS studios during Dan Rather's evening news broadcast Friday night...
Think about it - the PETA protest could be just the first pebble in an avalanche of action against "Survivor" as angry people everywhere find an aspect of the show they don't like. And it might get nasty - after all, if the show's got a cool million to hand out to the last sap left on the island, they can certainly scrape together a handsome out-of-court settlement for some "victim" with restitution on his or her mind. (Too bad they kicked that nice lawyer off the show...
...guideline, for example, was supposed to read "choose beverages and foods that limit your intake of sugars." But after challenges from the sugar industry and a letter of protest to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman from 30 Senators, the USDA and HHS decided to split the difference. A headline was changed to...MODERATE YOUR INTAKE OF SUGARS, but the stronger advice to "limit your intake of beverages and foods that are high in added sugars" was left in the text...