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Give Peace a Chance

http://boston.com/news/daily/20/college_rallies.htm

Yup, Boston area college students rally to protest mititarization.
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War Is Also Terrorism," proclaimed another sign made by Harvard University students.

Several hundred students, watched by a handful of campus police officers, gathered at Harvard Yard for the midday rally that coincided with others planned nationwide. From the library steps, organizers voiced their pleas for peace through a bullhorn.

"I am frustrated and I am afraid," said Alisa Khan, 17, of Herndon, Va., who described herself as a Muslim and an American. "In denouncing the terrorist attacks, we as a nation must not forget that while we have been grievously wronged, it will do us no good to wrong others in return," she said.

Some of the students at MIT, while not justifying the actions of the terrorists who hijacked and crashed four passenger jets last week, said the United States was in part to blame for decades of misguided Mideast policies that have made people angry. "As long as the United States is exploiting the rest of the world to create our own wealth, you won't ever have peace," said Brice Smith, 25, of Denver
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-philw (Hey Larry J, what's with these Denver students anyhow?)

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