Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MITCHELL GOODMAN, 73, passionate Vietnam-era antidraft activist prosecuted with Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin as one of the Boston Five in 1968; of cancer; in Temple, Maine...
...significant step, but it's only the beginning of a turnaround in the internal climate [of the department]," said local gay-rights activist Chuck Colbert...
However, Yangdon said that Lopsang is a political activist who has felt duty-bound toward the Tibetan people and Tibetan exiles since...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair is no longer an essential national figure--either to the public at large or to America's closeted or activist atheists, most of whom long ago shifted their allegiance to her successor organizations. But her absence leaves what the theologically inclined might call a Madalyn-shaped hole at a building in Austin. There is an air of melancholy these days about the American Atheists general headquarters on a stretch of Cameron Road. Instead of a business name (the building is unmarked), the large sign above the fenced-in parking lot reads FOR SALE. American Atheists' officers...
...became intrigued with an even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity," he says, and formed the basis of this week's exclusive piece...