Word: activist
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Some might argue that in the academy in 1994, talking about these matters is hardly novel. Didn't we all have Sex Fd in sixth grade? Yes, but Levin is neither the scientist interested in reducing Fros to its bio-mechanics nor the campus activist who attempts to equate Fros with a slogan. Levin doesn't purport to master this force, only to channel it. By invoking seduction, Levin's lectures become seductions unto themselves...
...TIME Daily yesterday, marked Fidel Castro's first recognition of his opposition during three decades in power. Robaina met with Ramon Cernuda of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and Reconciliation, Alfredo Duran, a Cuban-born former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party and longtime Miami-area political activist, and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a guerrilla commander during the revolution. "The Cuban government has taken a step that they hadn't taken for 35 years -- to sit down and talk with the opposition and recognize its legitimacy," Cernuda said. Neither side went into details of the talks, which concerned acceleration...
...would repay their schooling with community service. Hence the crime bill he fought desperately to save, a $30 billion potpourri of prisons and cops, of therapists and social workers turned loose on the ordinary American's No. 1 nightmare: crime. Hence the piece de resistance of Clinton's activist vision: health care "that cannot be taken away." It addresses the quintessential middle-class fear: losing what...
There is something valiant if archaic about Clinton's trying to resurrect activist government. Delivering the goods is far more difficult today. Government is broke. And the issue is not a bathhouse that can be built for a few hundred thousand dollars but a health-care entitlement that could cost trillions...
...ambitions for health care and crime met such resistance is that what started out as grand schemes to allay middle-class anxieties were increasingly seen as yet more remedial programs for the poor. Working people don't play midnight basketball. They go to Jones Beach. Build that, and activist government might once again become a going proposition...