Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blame the guy. If the choice were to go down as either the publisher of cheap porn or a First Amendment activist, you'd be trying to get arrested too. So Larry Flynt returned to Cincinnati to martyr himself again. The Ohio city, where Flynt was arrested on obscenity charges in 1977, is called Censornati by free-speech crusaders, and is one of the few smut-free zones in the country. Enforcement is so strict that residents had to drive to Kentucky to see Paula Jones naked in Penthouse. Trying to catch the eye of the Cincinnati police, Flynt handed...
Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology and curator for European ethnology at the Peabody Museum, brushes aside the suggestion that he is a social activist, much less a crusader for faculty rights...
Harking back to the Harvard student body's activist days, the undergraduate Council set aside its avowedly bread-and-butter agenda and endorsed a University-sponsored bill which would prevent the Harvard name from appearing on any goods made in sweatshops...
...recently signed Irish peace treaty has the potential to correct human rights abuses in Northern Ireland, Peace Watch Ireland activist Sean Cahill told an audience of about 15 at the Barker Center for the Humanities last night...
...fundamentalist turns up in the news? Egyptian soldiers assassinating Anwar Sadat? A Palestinian suicide bomber blowing up an Israeli market? In an age when Islamic fundamentalism has become a cliche associated with gruesome acts of terrorism, one image that usually does not spring up is that of a Muslim activist like Mohammed Abdul Koddus...