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Man climbs onto dome of St Peter's to protest Italian politics
ReutersROME, May 20 (Reuters) - A man climbed onto a ledge on the dome of St Peter's Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against a "political horror show", an apparent reference to Italy's embattled coalition struggling with recession and high...Tags: Italy, National Government, Politics, Mario Monti, Government
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NC protesters risk arrest to highlight concerns about GOP
The News & ObserverThe historians, doctors, preachers, lawyers, raging grannies, students and others gathered around the second-floor fountain inside the Legislative Building and belted out "This Little Light of Mine" and other songs. They were diverse in age and...Tags: Government Health Care, Prisons, Civil Unrest, AIDS, Justice and Rights
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Anti-war demonstrators at Boeing annual meeting protest drones
Tribune reporterAbout a dozen anti-war activists protested Boeing's annual meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History on Monday, arguing against the world's largest plane maker's production of drones and its financial support by the city of Chicago. While most...Tags: Military Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Field Museum of Natural History, Boeing Co., Annual and Special Corporate Meetings
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Russian opposition seek to revive protests against Putin
Reuters* Opposition marks anniversary of rally that turned violent * Protests have faded since peak early last year * Putin denies repression, has tightened grip on power By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - Russian protestors unfurled a huge banner...Tags: Prisons, Punishment, Moscow (Russia), Parliament, Political Dissent
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Campaign for Liberty planning protest in Havre de Grace [letter]
Editor: My name is Joe Fleckenstein, and I'm a Steering Committee Member with the Harford County Campaign for Liberty. Â This Saturday, May 4 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Havre de Grace, the Harford County Campaign for Liberty (www.harfordliberty.org) and...Tags: Executive Branch, Martin O'Malley, Havre de Grace, Politics, Regional Authority
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A long wait for a second Purple Heart
The Buffalo NewsRobert G. Franz stood at attention last week in his American Legion honor guard uniform, a perfect match for his surroundings -- the ornate, high-ceilinged ceremonial courtroom tucked within the first floor of Erie County Hall. The 69-year-old Vietnam...Tags: U.S. Army, Brian Higgins, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Family, Wars and Interventions
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Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....
Tags: Prosecution, Strikes, Justice and Rights, Egypt, Parliament
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: Timothy McVeigh, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, World War I (1914-1918), Radio
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Occupy Art
Protest Art is all the rage. And yet it's often so orderly, calm and collected. Currently it's collected at Wesleyan's Davison Art Gallery in the exhibit Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today. Many of the posters relate to the nationwide 2011...
Tags: Middletown, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Arts, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Executive Branch, Teaching and Learning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, University of Texas at Austin
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: Executive Branch, Teaching and Learning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, University of Oklahoma
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Vietnam veterans to be recognized during welcome-home day in The Villages
Those of us of a certain age remember the Vietnam War. Many served in Vietnam or had brothers or sons who did. Others, like me, came home from school and watched it on television every day on the news. Vietnam was the first war to come into the American...
Tags: U.S. Army, Demonstration, Southeast Asia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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