Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every Weyrich arguing that it's time for new tactics, there are conservatives who are just as adamant about staying in the game--and there's no sign that the Christian Coalition rank and file is retreating into the wilderness. Activist Gary Bauer is running for President decrying the "virtue deficit." James Dobson of Focus on the Family invokes Churchill: "Never give in; never, never, never." Yes, the G.O.P. has been morally lazy, but if social conservatives abandon the struggle, he writes, "then hope is lost...
...Rose she is a figure of eros and pathos, driving her lover quietly nuts with her desperate vitality; the turn won her a Hong Kong Film Critics award. Back in the West, she copped a less prestigious prize--a Razzie nomination for worst actress--when she played an Inuit activist in Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground. In that and Judge Dredd, she was just fabulous-looking furniture...
...Noor enumerates her projects, it is clear that she would like to continue the activist role she pioneered for Arab women. Now that she has been released from the constraints of being the wife of a reigning King, she may speak out more forcefully. Famous for angering Washington with her views supporting Palestinian rights and, at one time, urging negotiation with Saddam Hussein, she is now tempted, it seems, to enter areas of advocacy that are politically taboo in the Arab world, such as democracy and human rights. Most dear to her is the new King Hussein Foundation, which seeks...
Linda B. Levine, a community activist, says theCPD's initiatives are unknown...
...better support student groups. Just four years ago, many council members considered funding student groups much less significant than funding campus-wide social events. But then a wave of antisocial liberal students (myself included) stormed the council and tried to shift the focus away from planning dances to activist issues, lobbying administrators, funding student groups, anything but planning dances. That worked for a short while, until people realized that for all our hot air, we weren't really getting anything done...