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This Saturday, more than 50 Harvard students joined thousands of others in New York City to protest against an impending U.S. war in Iraq. The New York protest coincided with dozens of others around the world in an international demand for peace. We commend the Harvard students who, despite the cold, took to the streets to voice their opinions. This demonstration—the largest since the war in Vietnam—signals the rebirth of a strong and vibrant new anti-war movement...
...international protest was organized principally by United for Peace and Justice—coalition including a wide range of groups opposed to war—and reflected the growing diversity of voices, both radical and more mainstream, against the war. The large showing on Feb. 15 demonstrates the power that a democratic coalition with a wide range of people can have in making a unified statement. This growing anti-war movement could pose a real challenge to those moving us into...
...formation of an in-house panel to sift through the evidence and come up with answers. Critics howled that no agency--particularly not one in such hot water--should be allowed to investigate itself. Late last week, after 16 Democratic members of the House wrote a letter of protest to the White House, NASA backed away, ceding the job to an independent review board...
...aren't they? Isn't there something simply wrong with people who enjoy entertainment that depends on ordinary people getting their heart broken, being told they can't sing or getting played for fools? That's the question behind the protest of CBS's plans to make a real-life version of The Beverly Hillbillies with a poor rural family. Says Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies, "If somebody had proposed, 'Let's go into the barrio in L.A. and find a family of immigrants and put them in a mansion, and won't it be funny...
...arrested. He left the country and eventually was forced to sell his assets to Gazprom, the state-run natural-gas monopoly that would later use its security force to stage a dramatic on-air takeover of NTV. Parfyonov chose to stay rather than join colleagues who resigned in protest. Namedni has been NTV's main political news program since September 2001, and Parfyonov became the network's best-known face. After the takeover, Gazprom brought in Boris Jordan, a U.S. citizen, to head both Gazprom-media and NTV. The 36-year-old New Yorker didn't have any media experience...