Protesters greeted Condoleezza Rice throughout her trip to Britain. In Blackburn, the hometown of Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, demonstrators chanted “Shame on you” so loud that the screams could be heard inside the city’s town hall where Rice was meeting. A planned visit to the town’s mosque was canceled because of the protests. At the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, half a dozen students, with the school director’s permission, lined up just inside the school’s front door and stood with arms crossed over black T-shirts that read: “No torture. No compromise.” Then when Rice attended a performance by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, one prominent musician refused to perform, in protest against the Iraq war.