Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Learned Fein, the columnist and activist who inspired us to organize this effort, was amazed at our success. "You raised 25 WHAT?" he asked incredulously over the phone. "From UNDERGRADUATES?...in TWO DAYS? Yes, we told him. We raised $25,000, from undergraduates, in two days...
Naomi A. Andre, a resident tutor in Winthrop and a committee member, said a small group of students at a house meeting to discuss the search argued for a more activist tone for Winthrop. These students endorsed a lesbian couple for the position...
...went to Washington as F.D.R.'s Interior Secretary in 1933 and stayed in that job until 1946. The younger Ickes, born when his father was 65, attended Stanford and Columbia Law, broke horses for four years in California, then began a 25-year career as a lawyer and liberal activist. He worked for a string of losing presidential candidates -- Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and Jesse Jackson -- often tying the party establishment in knots with his knowledge of arcane rules and procedures. But he signed on early with Clinton and later became his New York City convention manager. After the election...
...recommended by activist LeonardFein, who spoke in Emerson Hall last month. It hasa low overhead cost, Lebwohl said...
...hint that Edvard Munch's stolen masterpiece, The Scream, may be returned came last week from a Norwegian antiabortion activist. The Rev. Borre Knudsen said the painting may be returned if local television broadcasts The Silent Scream -- a film that shows a fetus being aborted. Knudsen refused to say whether his organization was actually involved in the theft, which took place on the opening day of the Lillehammer Games...