Word: ai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older generation found it difficult to teach us about the birds and the bees, my generation will find it impossible. How will I explain "XM & YD by AI with Gestation M" to my daughter when she asks me where babies come from...
Amnesty International (AI)'s newly released book, Torture in the Eighties, does not demean the constant American struggle over civil rights interpretation. But it does provide a healthy measure of perspective for American citizens--as a chilling, factual account of brutal practices little known in the industrial West. And while the action of such groups as Al, the United Nations, and other international organizations brings many cases of torture to light, the book still leaves one with "an underlying sense of pessimism about the prevention of such acts as the South Korean incident excerpted above...
...government itself can act so blatantly in contradiction to its own laws, the implication must be that international legislation will be even less effective. Therefore, the primary goal of commendable organizations such as AI must be to provide information; the harsh realities of torture must be graphically illustrated to inspire any action. The response must then come from the centers of power, particularly those of the West...
...Charles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Frankie Lymon were some of his contemporaries, but the singer who really knocked Jackie Wilson out was Al Jolson. Jackson may dance like Baryshnikov straddling a jackhammer, move like a street blood steeped in Astaire and t'ai chi, sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves...
...Harvard AI sponsors write-in campaigns twice yearly. Last February members sent 3300 postcards calling for the release of two dissidents in Uruguay, and another major drive is scheduled for April...