Word: protested
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...Mbeki's position reportedly derived from reading Duesberg's ideas while trawling the Internet for information on HIV. And as a proud intellectual and instinctive contrarian, he won't easily be cowed by the howls of protest. In the end, though, Mbeki's flirtation with weird science may prove to be an embarrassment to a government that hopes to lead a continent-wide African renaissance. But that embarrassment will be nothing compared with the human suffering that could result from challenging the fundamentals of AIDS science in a country with one of the world's highest incidences...
...February, BSA joined with other student groups to protest the acquittal of the police officers who shot Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black West African immigrant...
...Confederate flag no longer symbolizes a "proud nation defeated" but the oppression of blacks. It is important to remember that the "Stars and Bars" has not been flying prominently in South Carolina since Jefferson Davis was president. It reared its ugly head in 1962 as a not-so-oblique protest to the Civil Rights movement. The flag was intended as a warning to integrationists. Other states used the flag as a similar threatening symbol: In 1956, Georgia adopted the rebel flag into its state flag to protest Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that integrated schools...
This week's conference will also include several panel discussions, a protest at a local prison and an exhibit of photos of prison environments...
...Cuba before the completion of the appeals process, and that's a condition his father has accepted. Which means that Janet Reno now faces a tough decision. "On the one hand, Reno's strategy of drawing this out in the hope of wearing down the resistance of the protesters around the house has produced a measure of protest fatigue," says Padgett. "But on the other hand there's the fear that by having allowed this to drag on, she's raised the expectation among the protesters that they'll prevail. And that could mean that when the government does decide...