Word: protestations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...officer was dispatched to the Yard on a report of a protest passing through. The officer discovered that it wasn't a protest but a large group of students...
...were plenty of them: more than 1,000 citizens loudly exercising their First Amendment rights, including Falun Gong members and Maryland high school kids, Republican mothers and Al Sharpton, a lady breezing by in a mink coat and a haggard man with a braided beard who was clutching a protest permit. At one point, the Bushies began yelling, "Con-cede again!" Which of course drew the Gore partisans' response, "Don't get snippy!" But scattered among the protesters were plenty of regular folks who waited hours--and even spent the night in tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
Yesterday's public protest for a living wage, Neil Rudenstine's Christmas in Jail, depicted University President Neil L. Rudenstine as a cantankerous, tight-fisted Scrooge who is opposed to worker and student demands...
...focus of yesterday's protest on Rudenstine followed a series of other PSLM events that singled out Rudenstine as a target...