Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...
...military coup sent Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile late last month, George Bush's first reaction was to denounce the overthrow and call for the reinstatement of Haiti's first democratically elected President. But last week Bush seemed to back away, citing allegations of human-rights abuses by the activist priest -- charges soon bolstered by an Organization of American States team in Haiti. Most disturbing: a Sept. 27 speech in which Aristide seemed to condone Pere Lebrun, a Haitian form of lynching in which a gasoline- soaked tire is set ablaze around a victim's neck. Officially, the U.S. % continued...
...academics, a feminist activist and a state Republican Party official squared off Wednesday night at a Kennedy School of Government forum, arguing over the just-concluded confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
...Kozol and many activist reformers, the chief villain of the education tragedy is "local control," America's decentralized system of school administration and its heavy reliance on property taxation. Everything from pencils to teachers' salaries is paid for through a patchwork process that varies from state to state. But in most cases, about 6% of the money in any district comes from Washington, 47% from the state government and 47% from locally generated property taxes. Kozol believes the best way to improve schools -- all schools -- would be to do away completely with the property tax as a source of revenue...
...politics aside, an activist like Clinton would be better placed than a conservative to push the "responsibilities" agenda. Most Republicans see government as "the problem"; their views are "trapped by their antitax and antigovernment rhetoric," says Conner. "When they talk about rights and responsibilities, the red flags go up. People see them as being demanding without being supportive, as wanting to take without being willing to give." On the flip side, adds Conner, in an analysis Clinton shares, "liberals are going to have to realize that the only way to generate public support for expanding the programs they see people...