Word: activistic
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...over 60 years. He set new standards for the form's possibilities with his cinematic weekly Spirit series during the 1940s, and then again in the late twentieth century, with his tireless boosterism for long-form "graphic novels." His final book combines literary biography and criticism into an activist work striking a blow against anti-Semitism. Though not without flaws, The Plot carries through Eisner's ambitious legacy...
...DIED. JACK NICHOLS, 67, pioneering U.S. gay-rights activist who helped organize the movement's first rally outside the White House, in 1965, and successfully lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to rescind its classification of homosexuality as a mental illness, which it did in 1973; of leukemia; in Cocoa Beach, Florida...
...implicitly picking favorite humanitarian causes, the Swipe for Darfur proposal will set a dangerous precedent for Harvard activist fundraising. In the Harvard consciousness, thanks to a successful divestment campaign, significant activist activity, and a whole lot of green bracelets...
...solution is a simple one. Instead of establishing a precedent of swiping for a single cause, students should be given a choice at the end of the year about the humanitarian destination of their surplus Crimson Cash. University Hall would establish a process whereby student activist groups (like the Darfur Action Group) could petition for their causes being included on the menu of options that would be available to students. The College administration would have to establish its own criteria for eligibility, but the process would make swipe-card based fundraising available to more groups than just those that have...
...University (and a KMT member), calls Lien's trip "the wrong thing at the wrong time," adding "it will aggravate the divisions in Taiwan society." Chang Hui-ching, 34, a historian at Taiwan's National Palace Museum, says the political schism is already too wide. A former pro-independence activist, Chang no longer votes or discusses politics because, she says, "in Taiwan there is no middle ground. Everyone is talking but no one is listening. People's positions are fixed." In fact, poll results suggest some nuance of attitude. In a survey by Taiwan's Focus Survey Research...