Word: activist
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Then-president George Bush more or less brushed them off. He knew Bosnia failed the Colin Powell Test; it resembled Vietnam more than Kuwait. But candidate Bill Clinton needed-to differentiate himself from Bush on foreign policy. During the campaign, in a major address, Clinton called for an activist policy of U.S. military involvement in the Balkans...
...serious threat to single-minded support of individual liberty. Dershowitz asserts that "the A.C.L.U. is a very different organization today." To him, the key tenet of the A.C.L.U. faith is support for free-speech rights for "causes that you despise." Without that, "all you are is a political activist...
...consensus that appears to be emerging within the A.C.L.U. is typified by board member and gay activist Tom Stoddard, who says the absolutists are seeking "otherworldly vindication of one constitutional right without recognizing that all rights have value and can be reconciled." To him, both equality and liberty must be weighed and many rights enshrined. "Pure consistency is never possible in an organization that addresses so many rights simultaneously," says Stoddard. To the embattled Old Guard, however, purity and consistency were precisely what the A.C.L.U. was once all about...
...though some faculty members said they support the idea of a gay center for the University, they did not seem likely to jump on the student activist bandwagon...
...minute power plays. The culmination came when the Rev. Jesse Jackson, best known among four final candidates for the post, withdrew his name from consideration. The final selection, made Friday, was almost anticlimactic: the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, an official with the United Church of Christ and a civil rights activist. Relatively speaking, getting the job was the easy part. Chavis' true challenge will be to restore the N.A.A.C.P. to its former glory...