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...Wilson and Jane Goodall signed, but so did leaders from several other fields, including Walter Cronkite, John Glenn, financier George Soros and Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist who is on the board of directors of Conservation International. Tracking down Jimmy Carter required the assistance of TIME's Hugh Sidey, and Charles contacted Mikhail Gorbachev via cell phone while the former Soviet President was traveling in Italy...
Mansfield is one of Harvard's most ardent opponents of grade inflation. He has voiced concern about grade elevation at Faculty meetings and even with University President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...ardent fan of the Cleveland Browns, I've long been the object of derision and pity. The Brownies wear uniforms that remind most of bad taste or effluvium, they've repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and have never been to a Super Bowl...
...only civil rights groups that have Ashcroft in their sights. He has always been an ardent abortion foe, so abortion-rights groups view his nomination as "akin to the appointment of George Wallace to be Attorney General in the 1960s," says Rosemary Dempsey, Washington director of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. In 1998 Ashcroft sponsored a constitutional amendment to outlaw all abortions except those needed to save the life of the mother. Bush allows for exceptions in cases of rape or incest, but Ashcroft didn't. His proposal defined human life as beginning at fertilization, which women...
...making his announcement about Cochran's support, Republican Senators were hearing a briefing from pollster John Zogby, who argued that the best way for them to reach out to voters is to climb aboard the campaign-finance-reform bandwagon. "Bulls___," howled Senator Mitch McConnell, the McCain bill's most ardent opponent. Other hard-liners are softening. Senator John Warner said he wouldn't mind a bill to turn back the tide of unregulated attack ads that anonymous groups run against candidates. "In 1978 I knew who I was running against," Warner, who's up for re-election in 2002, told...