Word: statement
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Following weeks of campus-wide protests over the Amadou Diallo shooting verdict, 24 of Harvard's most prominent black faculty members have signed a statement calling for an extended partnership between law enforcement and the nation's minority communities...
...York Times complained that John Paul's statement gave insufficient attention to church wrongs against women and homosexuals. An organization of pagans and Wiccans said the Pope should have included them in the apology: "Women accused of being 'Witches,' for instance--the herbalists and wisewomen of still Pagan villages throughout Europe--were hunted out, hideously tortured, and burned at the stake in uncountable numbers...
...mere prospect of such an occurrence is anathema for the mainland government. Ostensibly, Chinese communists appeal to a sense of nationalism as justification for these threats, which are becoming more or less a challenge to their brethren on Taiwan to surrender or be destroyed. Among the warnings was a statement of conditions for which Taiwan can expect retaliation amounting to annihilation. This list includes proclamation of independence, foreign intervention and, more ominously, protracted delays in progress toward reunification with the mainland...
Avery said that she and the committee will fuse the separate sections into a final version of the grant application in the coming weeks. The separate sections include the grant procedure mission statement, potential guidelines for applicants, a possible budget form, a timetable for the grant awards and a draft of a follow-up questionnaire for grant recipients...
...didn't help that the majority anti-abortion crowd (apparently brought in from all over the state) applauded loudly after each statement made by their two speakers, no matter how trivial. Neither did the armed guards and police barricades create a comfortable atmosphere for compromise. But mostly, it was the fierce denial of the motivations and causes of anti-abortion extremists that fed the distrust and anger on both sides...