Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women involved in these cases, the lack of official action has been both astonishing and frightening. Even if the College is reluctant to expel these students, it is still unclear why the votes to dismiss have not yet been taken by the faculty. As the woman raped by Elster told Perspective last week, "The way I think about it is, that when the administration doesn't expel the person who raped me, my safety and my welfare doesn't amount to a hill of beans. If Harvard is so concerned with their name, then why do they have a student...
...really come to a close until each and every Republican who mounted this six-year war on Bill Clinton has been removed from office--not by sham investigations and phony inquiries but by the ballot box. That's why some friends and I are forming a political action committee to target the right-wingers who didn't listen to the people of their districts during impeachment. We're going to mount a vigorous attack. We'll give money and support to candidates who oppose these smear operators. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. If the people...
Because in the Year of Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
Rich Galen, who runs GOPAC, the political-action committee organized by Newt Gingrich, thinks it's best for the G.O.P. to content itself with smaller initiatives like that, at least for a while. After a year of impeachment fever, "the party is just starting to chew solid food again, so it's better to take it in small bites," says Galen. But after Monica, the G.O.P. is divided between hard-liners who cannot abide the thought that Clinton got away and moderates who are worried that the "activist base"--the Christian right and other conservatives who will figure strongly...
...Seizing a vehicle can be a real hardship for a spouse who needs to go to work or a child who needs to go to school," says Cohen. Moreover, the seizure can stick with only a preponderance of the evidence to back it up (because it is a civil action), and not guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. This means that under the mayor's policy, a motorist could be acquitted of drunken driving in criminal court but still lose his car. How's that for being tough on crime...