Word: activists
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...Excellency is not likely to invite the band to fall by for plum brandy and cabbage rolls, and U2 is probably not at the top of the White House invitation list, either. They are dead serious about their liberal activist politics although careful not to be sanctimonious. Clayton talks worriedly about some fans turning to the band "needing to be healed," and Bono says," I would hate to think everybody was into U2 for 'deep' and 'meaningful' reasons. We're a noisy rock-'n'-roll band. If we all got onstage, and instead of going 'Yeow!' the audience all went...
Opponents of the pill, who say they consider its effects indistinguishable from abortion, make no apologies about treating it as a political issue. Two days before Crawford's announcement, a group headed by conservative activist Paul Weyrich forwarded an e-mail to like-minded advocates, asking them to "call the White House comment line as soon as possible to say 'No Plan B!'" Why were the calls directed to the White House and not the FDA? "I'm told they take notes on the calls," says Paul Caprio, author of the e-mail, "and that information gets to the President...
...proof was a radar photograph showing that the hurricane "looks like a fetus facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation." A photo of a 6-week fetus was helpfully provided for comparison. At the other end of the political spectrum, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was blaming the hurricane on ... Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi, who played a "central role ... derailing the Kyoto Protocol" on global warming. Kennedy's larger point was defensible-global warming may well cause extreme weather patterns-but the implication that one man and one (flawed) treaty...
...rhetoric. If you don't have a better plan for bringing jobs, they ask, then what's your point? Jackson is "entitled to his opinion, but he's never been involved with the West Side. He doesn't even come on the West Side," says Melvin Bailey, a local activist. "You'll hear a saying around here, and that is that a little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing." Denise Carter, 63, who lives in West Chicago and is disabled and retired, sees Wal-Mart as a salvation. "I'm happy Wal-Mart is coming...
...successfully campaigned against rapid development around scenic Queenstown. Just the other week, he bobbed up at Helen Clark's election launch, introducing the Prime Minister with an attack on the war in Iraq. And don't get him started on GE foods. Otherwise, the accidental actor and activist is content to play vintner. "The best review I ever got for my pinot noir was when they called it sex in a glass," says Neill. "That'll do for me." Cinema-goers can expect a lively vintage...