Word: anties
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Finally, on Wednesday, April 26, The Crimson reported the Reverend Jesse Jackson's speech at the IOP Forum. Buried deep in the article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic...
...long after oil began spilling from the tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska, anger started welling up in Mike Siegel. From his base in Seattle, Siegel launched a national anti-Exxon campaign: distributing bumper stickers, organizing picket lines and traveling to the company's New York City headquarters to dump 2,000 protest letters on the president's desk...
Like Siegel, Williams downplays the power that radio talk hosts wield. "All we did," he says of the anti-pay raise jihad, "was direct passions and emotions to the right place." Not everyone regards him so benignly. Columnist Tom Moroney of the suburban Middlesex News has charged that Williams "does a disservice to the political process" and claims that he isn't legally registered to vote in Massachusetts. (Williams denies the charge; Moroney, he counters, is "evil incarnate...
...rebel leader who most closely fills that bill is Hekmatyar, head of the best- disciplined guerrilla organization, Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Some ; Western experts are uncomfortable with Hekmatyar's plan to turn Afghanistan into a Muslim state governed by shari'a (Islamic law), which could take an anti-American course. Should Washington be supporting someone with the potential to be a U.S. enemy? Defenders say Hekmatyar, despite his Islamic zeal, is also a pragmatist. But abetting someone with a reputation for ruthlessness in pursuit of power could be incompatible with Washington's goal of peace and reconciliation...
...analogy is so loaded that it makes one wonder the intentions of her censorship. It's the same political argument behind claims that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, that any condemnation of that nation is comparable to Hitler's treatment of the Jews. These arguments are irrational; they trap Israel in its history, rather than allowing it to criticize itself and change...