Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than 250 Columbia University students gathered in front of Faculty House on the university's campus in Manhattan. The students "chanted, held up posters, and jeered at conference participants as they entered," according to the Columbia Spectator. Inside, University of California Regent Ward Connerly--a leading opponent of affirmative action--was opening a two-day conference sponsored by a group advocating conservative education reform...
...true that the early application process has a much richer clientele than regular action," say William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial...
...both Lewis and Jeremy R. Knowles, dean ofthe Faculty, defend Harvard's program because itis an early action process, and does not requirestudents to come if accepted...
Proposition 209 is the California voter initiative that ended affirmative action programs in that state...
Cracking down on Hamas is not easy for Arafat. The group's members, after all, are Palestinians too, and campaigns against them are never popular. Arafat's officers have reservations about arresting their compatriots, an action that echoes too loudly those of the Israeli occupiers. Says an official: "For us, people who grew up on resistance, even though we're willing to serve peace, it's difficult psychologically to do the job for the Israelis...