Capitalizing on his newfound clout, Mr. Assaf, 23, the son of refugees and a resident of the crowded Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza, seized the opportunity to appeal for change.
President Obama has chosen a less dramatic path -- moral suasion -- calling the outsized bonuses "shameful" and going several times to Wall Street to appeal for change.
Students who oppose dissection also appealed for policy changes this year at a school board meeting in Little Chute, Wis., and last year before a State Senate committee in Vermont.
Tennis Australia said that there was an "unacceptable level of risk" in Chennai, and had appealed for a change of venue after the International Tennis Federation said last week that the southern Indian city had been approved by security consultants.
As he steeled himself for the Ecofin meeting in Brussels, the finance minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou, appealed for time: "Change takes time and time is an increasingly scarce commodity especially in today's jittery international markets," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
Worried that business secrecy may undermine scientific cooperation, an international group of geneticists last week appealed for a change of European patent policies to encourage scientists to release sequence data as quickly as robotic sequencing machines spew the information out.
Tough visa rules have led to a foreign student "brain drain," prompting both lawmakers and members of the technology industry to appeal for a change in immigration law.
The bill, which requires only the ceremonial signature of President Carlo Ciampi to become law, allows defendants in criminal trials to appeal for a change of venue on the grounds of "legitimate suspicion" that the judge hearing the case is biased.
Then someone else chimed in with a report from a moderate Republican congressman who had recently visited the White House to appeal for a change of course in the war: "He said he's met with Bush.
White House officials said the president was just as aggressive on immigration as he was on firearms, though his appeal for changes in gun laws was one of the emotional peaks of the night.
