Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A first-rate rap album explains -- and embodies -- the anger and confusion of the L.A. riots...
Though it boasts prominent names, including Senators Arlen Specter, Nancy Kassebaum, John Chafee and Warren Rudman, the new assemblage faces rough going. Other moderates, reluctant to anger religious activists, declined to join the effort. Even the pugnacious Specter cautioned afterward that "it is important that we not pick fights or disagree with anyone." Ralph Reed, who runs Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, noted that a previous effort to mobilize centrists had flopped. "It's awfully hard to motivate moderates," Reed observed...
Hillary K. Anger '93, who spoke in favor of lowering ticket Prices to five dollars for Harvard students, said she feels that the money lost by doing so would not hurt the council. "A small loss at a small concert seems like a social service," she said...
...during the Carter years, he was Walter Mondale's chief speechwriter. Having observed the problem at close range, Kaplan believes his engaging "entertainment" could "draw a little blood" in an era that has seen MTV and Arsenio help elect a President. "I'd like to keep the public's anger alive," says Kaplan. "This is obviously the time to get serious about campaign reform, which everyone in Washington claims to want. Maybe the film can help...
...moved to weep, but rather to feel anger and disgust. This is not tragedy. The word tragedy would give this business too much moral elevation. What has happened in Bosnia is just squalor and barbarism -- the filthy work of liars and cynics manipulating tribal prejudices, using atrocity propaganda and old blood feuds to accomplish the unclean political result of "ethnic cleansing." The displacement of a million innocent civilians, turned into refugees, is not a consequence of the war, but precisely the purpose of the war. It has worked...