Word: protested
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...young fighters wrapped their faces in black masks, left their home base on Kersay Doh, or "God's Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make way for border trade and roads. But the impulsive raid quickly dissolved into a debacle. Marching into a hospital with guns and explosives squandered any sympathy the Karen rebels...
...million commercial complex on JFK St. officially opened last Friday after more than four years of planning and work--and more than a little protest from Cambridge preservationists...
...BGLSA protest on November 15, two senior faculty members--Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes and then Professor of English and American Literature Barbara Johnson--said publicly for the first time that they were homosexuals...
...reputation that gave the University its moniker has changed. Today, Harvard students, who stormed University Hall in 1969 to protest the presence of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on campus, overwhelmingly support bringing the organization back, despite its exclusion of gay men and lesbians...
...Gore campaign dispatches 6-ft. "Corn Man" to protest Bill Bradley's agriculture policy, a human chicken to highlight Bradley's fear of debates and jumping-jacking senior citizens known as Gray Panthers to mock his claim that exercise would lower Medicare costs...