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...member of the U.S. Olympic rowing team that was gearing up for a medal attempt in Moscow. After tasting Olympic competition in 1976, she was eager for another opportunity. With shock and disbelief, the rowers learned of President Jimmy Carter’s decision to boycott the Games as protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Endeavors to persuade political officials not to punish the athletes proved useless—the closest O’Leary came to the 1980 Olympics was a satellite feed of the races underway without her boat...
Members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) staged a protest yesterday outside Mass. Hall, demanding that Harvard put pressure on the Coca-Cola Corporation to provide AIDS treatment for its workers in Africa...
...leaders said the organization had previously sent an e-mail to Summers’ secretary to arrange a meeting with the president. They said they were told to address their concerns to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which protest organizer Florence T. Twu ’05 said does not meet until next year...
...plans to fly to Houston on Tuesday, where Jiang will be staying for two days before travelling to Crawford, to protest with Amnesty International against Jiang’s visit and pressure Bush to ask for her husband’s release...
It’s also built from consideration. At the Roxy, when Brownstein complained about the gusts of cold air blowing from the vents, the audience, muggy with dancing fervor, registered its protest with yelps. “Okay, if you guys are too hot, we’ll keep it on,” said Brownstein obligingly. “We’ll just have to whip ourselves into a frenzy...