Word: activists
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...deficit has exploded under Bush and the Republican Congress. McCain's public spat with Democratic rising star Senator Barack Obama has not hurt him with his fellow Republicans either. "If you pick a fight with a Hillary Clinton or an Obama, the base watches and approves," says activist Grover Norquist, who is no McCain fan. "So it sends all the right vibes...
...called citizen journalists bagged another trophy last week when THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVIST discovered that NASA public-affairs aide George Deutsch--accused of trying to muzzle agency scientists on the issue of global warming--had never graduated from Texas A&M University, a detail the 24-year-old presidential appointee later explained away by saying his résumé had been written in anticipation of a degree. After he resigned, THIS BLOG TITLE FOR SALE praised the sleuthing as "proof that blog journalism is real." Meanwhile, THE VELVET BLOG pondered updating his own résumé "in anticipation of graduating from Harvard...
...REFUSED ENTRY. JOSE BOVÉ, 52; to the U.S.; in New York City. Due to deliver a speech at Cornell University, the French antiglobalization activist was detained and questioned upon arrival at J.F.K. Airport before being flown back to France. U.S. officials said Bové-who was jailed in France for destroying genetically modified crops and demolishing a McDonald's restaurant-was barred from entering as he failed to mention his previous convictions on an immigration form...
...those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including in an interview with Time - the truth about the mass slaughter of hundreds of civilians in the Uzbek city of Andijan...
...local civil rights activist compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ new achievement benchmarks to apartheid-era South African policies at last night’s School Committee meeting...