Word: activists
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When the political activist Al Sharpton pivoted from his war against bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C. Delores Tucker, launched a very similar campaign to clean up rap music. She focused on Time Warner (parent of TIME), whose subsidiary Interscope was home to hard-core rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. In 1995 Tucker succeeded in forcing Time Warner to dump Interscope...
...must learn to be good neighbors. And I'm optimistic. People cannot be foolish forever.' I.A. REHMAN, Pakistani human-rights activist, on the relations between India and Pakistan as his country celebrates its 60th year of independence...
...REHMAN, a Pakistani human-rights activist, on the relations between India and Pakistan as his country celebrates its 60th year of independence...
...coffin--as a White House photographer, Joe O'Donnell began documenting tragedy nearly 20 years earlier when, as a Marine sergeant, he was assigned to capture on film the effects of the atom bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the rest of his life, O'Donnell, who became an activist against nuclear arms, carried with him such images as the classroom of children seated at their desks reduced to cinder, as well as long-term health problems from radiation exposure...
...unwanted migrants have brought crime and disease, and have driven down the wages of native workers. Locals complain that the workers from abroad will be a drain on the island's welfare system. "We worry that they will stay here and exploit our infrastructure," says Svetlana Soldakina, a local activist. "It's not that our island is unfriendly, but our city will burst...