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...Democrats may never be able to outdo the Republicans on patriotism and national defense, but they do have to be credible in those areas. "This is the threshold question," says Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic Party activist. "We have to be able to close the leadership gap with Bush. We can't do that if we don't field a candidate who is strong on defense." In the South Carolina debate, Lieberman made good sense with this formulation: "I am the one Democrat who can match George Bush in the areas where many think he's strong--defense and moral...
Feminists sometimes allow this disrespect for men to spill over into their rhetoric. Activist Helen Caldicott argues that men are psychopaths (in her more diplomatic phrasing of it, “societies dominated by male values” condone “violence and killing” and “psychotic behavior”), and she also points out that men are “clinically and psychologically dead.” Columnist Anna Quindlen sums up her philosophy on gender issues: “It’s simply that I think women are superior...
...representative of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID), a neighborhood activist group, praised Harvard’s recent efforts to involve the community and encouraged residents to approach the discussions with HLS with an open mind...
...play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don't play the 'milk money.' I don't put my family at risk, and I don't owe anyone anything." BILL BENNETT, conservative activist, quoted in a story on washingtonmonthly.com and newsweek.com about his being a high-stakes casino gambler, losing, according to one casino source, as much as $8 million in the past decade...
Died. Walter Sisulu, 90, South African political activist, chief strategist of the African National Congress (ANC) and longtime jail mate of Nelson Mandela; in Johannesburg. Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing. In 1963 a group of antigovernment activists were tried for planning acts of sabotage and antiapartheid revolution, for which Sisulu and Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sisulu spent the next 25 years incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island. "He has not been honored the way some of us have been... nevertheless, he stood...