Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the new detente, the Harbus, a non-profit corporation, covers the news fiercely and is not reluctant to assert its editorial independence...
...relative or a friend of a celebrity are inherently flawed in that they are written on the pretense that the author's life history is as compelling as the celebrity's. This is usually never the case. An inevitable tension arises in which the author struggles to assert his own identity while at the same time acknowledging the celebrity relation that made his story noteworthy in the first place. Because a memoir writer is more than a celebrity biographer, she has the onerous task of assigning relevance to her own life. If the author is not successful, the memoirs become...
...charm survive the harsher spotlight of the winner's circle? Already questions are being raised about Gingrich's chairmanship of GOPAC, an organization that some assert is devoted solely to promoting Gingrich and his ideas. His Democratic challenger in Georgia two weeks ago claimed that GOPAC spends nearly $2 million a year and was illegally contributing four times as much to candidates as was permitted by law. Says Gingrich: "We legally obey every regulation. I understand my critics are fixated and pathologically disoriented, but they're my opponents. Why would I try to correct that?" As for the substance...
Equality feminism rejects the idea that there are separate female standards of morality or justice, that there is a "woman's way" of approaching the world. To assert different natures for men and women is to deny our common humanity. Believing in gender war brings women no closer to their goals of equal treatment. Instead, men and women continually switch roles of domination and submission in a societal game of S&M. Equality deteriorates from a vision of true partnership between the sexes to a hope that men will spend equal time on the bottom...
...government will not assert exemptions to protect the privacy interests of any terrorist abductors who are mentioned in documents." --United States Attorney Eric Holder in a letter to Jerry Anderson, the former Associated Press reporter who was held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon for nearly seven years. Anderson had filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act asking the government to release documents pertaining to his captivity. Initially, the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and CIA all told him that because of various privacy protections in federal law, he would have to get notarized permission from his former captors...