Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to imagine RICHARD GERE turning down the chance to work on Red Corner, a movie in which he gets to act and be an activist too. Gere, silvering up nicely at 47, plays a lawyer who finds himself accused of rape and murder while in China. If you're thinking of this as an opportunity for the longtime Tibetan activist to educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie...
...mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...
...botched deliverance was the latest of 25 attacks on American mink farms in the past 18 months. It was an "act of love," declared the Animal Liberation Front, a shadowy activist group that took responsibility for the raid in a communique issued late last week. "Contrary to the lies of the popular media," the A.L.F. claimed, "no animals are harmed in any act of liberation...
...shared a stage with Clinton haters. That helped to convince many that Jones was a tool, witting or unwitting, of the rabid right. Though Jones is said by partisans to be oblivious to politics, Susan Carpenter-McMillan, a friend and counselor who describes herself as a "conservative Christian activist," says Jones was indeed used by extreme rightists, and was too naive to realize...
...defeat G.O.P. primary winner CHARLOTTE REEVES. (A third and distant candidate is independent Ivory Phillips, a black woman.) The other wonder of this election is that though Jackson has a black majority, race has not been a dominant factor. Reeves, a white woman, handily defeated black civil rights activist James Meredith in the G.O.P. primary. Jackson voters seemed less concerned about color than about rising crime and other problems...