Protesting a cartoon in a student newspaper making fun of Ohio State's women's-studies program, campus feminists attempted, unsuccessfully, to burn their by now flame-resistant bras. Settling for the next best thing, they did manage to steal 15,000 of the offending papers and persuaded the university to have the paper's cartoonist fired.

And in Ottawa, ten American demonstrators protesting a Supreme Court ruling favorable to gays had to ask a police officer how to burn the Canadian flag without setting themselves on fire. The officer obliged, citing safety concerns in response to subsequent criticism.

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