Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through more than one embarrassment. Early last week, after New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary a "congenital liar," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the President wanted to punch Safire in the nose. At his press conference on Thursday, Clinton compared his wife with Eleanor Roosevelt, another activist First Lady who came under fire. "For many of the same reasons," he added, "from many of the same sources...
...Nigerian military government's recent execution of nine antigovernment activists, including environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, has elicited international outrage and condemnation. Most notably, the United States and several other countries have withdrawn their ambassadors to Nigeria...
...caught in a thicket of problems. And no one disputes that many of the solutions of the past have done little to solve them. But if we leap into Newt Gingrich's Conservative Opportunity Society, will we, collectively, be better off? Conservatives of various stripes and hues have opposed activist, progressive government for generations. Indeed, the minimalist and maximalist approaches even divided the Founding Fathers. Will less government, as envisioned by Gingrich, then mean more prosperity and well-being for all Americans...
...expected, Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil rights activist, handily beat his G.O.P. opponent for the Chicago-area House seat vacated by scandal-tainted Mel Reynolds. In California, Republican Tom Campbell turned back a Democratic attempt to link him to Speaker Newt Gingrich and won a San Jose House seat, and former Democratic state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco...
Jesse Jackson Jr., the 30-year-old son of the civil rights activist, will bring his famous name to Washington after trouncing Republican Thomas Somer to capture the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Mel Reynolds, who resigned after being convicted of sexual misconduct. "Although it is clear that he won the post largely because of his famous name, and he isn't as well credentialed as Reynolds who was a Rhodes Scholar, he can still really help a district that is in horrible condition," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff. "The fact that his name is Jesse Jackson will enable...