Word: activists
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...fear of arrest gnawed at her. Her Chinese was not fluent, and in 2005 the crackdown on refugees intensified. Because of her forced abortion, she could not have children, which caused irreparable strains in her marriage. In October 2005, her mother met Kim Sang Hun--a prominent underground-railroad activist in Seoul who took the case to Peters. The two of them started working on the logistics of Kim Myong Suk's flight to freedom...
...women to restore their clans' reputation. But the new Iraqi government has set up several bureaucratic roadblocks. Even organizations that do not receive government money have to secure permission from four ministries and the Baghdad city council for every shelter they hope to operate. Wringing her hands in exasperation, activist Yanar Mohammed says, "They want to close our women's shelter and deny our ability to open more...
DIED. Arthur Hertzberg, 84, contrarian Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; near Westwood, N.J. After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real...
...recently passed universal health care legislation in Massachusetts was the rare reform that drew praise from both sides of the political aisle, from Senator Hillary Clinton to conservative activist Grover Norquist. The product of months of negotiations between the state?s primarily Democratic lawmakers and Republican Governor and Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, it would require the state?s residents to have health insurance or face tax penalties, while employing a mix of tax credits and expansions of programs for low-income residents that experts think will result in most of the state?s estimated 550,000 uninsured getting some kind...
...take Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront." JOHN PRESCOTT, British Deputy Prime Minister, when asked which actor he would want to play him in a film of his life. The former seaman's union activist ruled out British movie star Hugh Grant as being "new Labour, not old Labour...