Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share Professor Mansfield's politics and that is fine. But certainly none of us should share his low estimation of self-worth. Though the nation's eyes don't always turn to Harvard, we must affirm our power to make a difference. The belief that our actions are worthless and heeded by no one is not only specious, it is dangerous as well. Precisely that same apathy allows ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and human rights abuses in China...
...field of contenders isn't complete. Possible candidates still wait on the sidelines, and also-rans like Ed Muskie will affirm that being a front runner this far out guarantees exactly nothing. The issues (both real and perceived) are only now emerging. But the candidates' strategies are coalescing, and much is already known about the landscape on which the campaign will unfold. This second presidential battle of the post-cold war era will continue the debates begun in 1992, which were exacerbated but not settled in 1994. At home, with the gap between rich and poor widening, the seemingly ingrained...
Mexican anthropologist Roger Bartra sees ``a revolution in the way the Mexican views the gringo.'' In the past, he says, ``the ruling classes emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...
...Helen M. Alvare, a spokesperson for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in your February 21 article ("Anti-Abortion Activists Look to Future," news story). I find it humorous at best and pathetic at worst that she described the goal of the anti-choice movement to be to "affirm a new notion of womanhood in which fertility is not a disability." If one accepts this comment, we must then assume that the anti-choice movement is actively doing something to reduce unwanted pregnancies in this country. These efforts must involve one of the the three ways to prevent pregnancies...
...offhand way in which the authors affirm such a negative stereotype demonstrates not only a careless choice of words, but a frightening degree of belief in these debasing generalizations...