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...time Ashcroft wrote to Pratt, the Virginia-based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...
...Ryan said he is uncertain about the implications his departure has for the University's dealings with SAS and other activist groups...
Knowing that support for the death penalty would be an issue in the race, Ashcroft portrayed White, a talented and well-respected jurist, as a pro-criminal activist intent on undermining the capital punishment system. This occurred despite White's endorsement by the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, despite White's votes to uphold most death sentences that came before his court, despite the decisions by Ashcroft appointees to join White in many of his decisions reversing a death sentence, and despite Ashcroft's complete lack of interest in White's death-penalty views during the confirmation hearing...
...former vice chancellor of the University of Denver, whose daughter, National Security Adviser-designate Condoleezza Rice, recounted at the Republican National Convention last year how he had joined the G.O.P. in 1952 in segregated Alabama after the Democrats refused to register him; in Palo Alto, Calif. A longtime community activist, Rice in recent years organized coaching and tutoring programs in the Bay Area...
...called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests, and hitting closer to home, was the violence associated with the Firestone tire problem...