Word: protesters
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...stealing as many as one million votes, which in a country with 7.5 million eligible voters can be a decisive advantage. Milosevic's media will then declare the victory of "patriotic forces" over "NATO-sponsored traitors" and the police are expected to be as successful in crushing popular protest as they have been on several occasions during the past year. A recent Kostunica statement demonstrates that the opposition is painfully aware of its position. "It is very hard for me to imagine Milosevic winning fairly," said Kostunica, "and even harder to imagine him accepting my victory...
...case that ignited a firestorm of protest throughout the state, Judge Maria Lopez recently sentenced a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy to one year of house arrest and five years probation. The public was justifiably outraged that the assailant, 22-year-old Charles Horton, will not spend any time behind bars...
...high school football season, a not-so-quiet revolution is emerging in Southern states, where prayers are considered as much a part of football as Frito pies and hot chocolate. In nearly two dozen season openers earlier this month, students and religious groups came up with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already the religious rebellion is organizing into a successful Christian...
...students. Over in Knoxville, Tenn., Hannah Wood, 17, an assistant football trainer and chapter president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, persuaded 250 people to form a human prayer chain on the asphalt track around the football field. At her school, officials say they could not have stopped the protest from happening, even though the plan had been featured in the local paper...
...others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord's Prayer. In Asheville, N.C., the group We Still Pray, led by pastor Ralph Sexton, filled a football stadium with 12,000 supporters at a rally last month to protest the Supreme Court ruling. The group is also circulating petitions to rewrite the U.S. Constitution...