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...danced and demonstrated on his behalf outside the white fortress-like building on Constitution Avenue. The atmosphere was heady, anticipatory. There were drums. "While he is trying to get justice in there, we are with him out here," said a Haitian protester, who waved a long red-and-blue banner that said it all, in simple terms: WE WANT ARISTIDE. In Haitian Creole they have begun to call him Msieu Mirak, or Mr. Miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than A Little Priest | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

Harvard's new president, though himself an Earthling, should tear down the offending banner and forcibly enroll the culprits in Introductory Astronomy. Let's put the "universe" back into "University." Jeff Moran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Put The Universe Back Into The University | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

After about 15 minutes, Widener Security Supervisor David W. Muir asked Rubin and Mazie to cease their banging. The noisemaking stopped, but Muir returned shortly afterward to insist that the two remove their Jerk banner, prominently displayed on one of the library's large front ledges...

Author: By Michael C. Hughes, | Title: Jerk: Off to a Running Start | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...David Dukes will fill the political vacuum. Duke carries a banner bashing "tax-'n'-spend" liberals, "Big Government" and affirmative action. He calls on welfare recipients "to work for their welfare checks." He laments that "there is no room in the jails." And he wraps himself in the rhetoric of the working middle class...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: David Duke and the New Politics | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

This evolving movement -- an odd amalgam of supply-side conservatives, ! frustrated educational reformers and a handful of militant black politicians -- has begun to take shape on the national stage. Under the banner of "school choice," its adherents are pressing for some form of public financing to cover student tuition at private and even parochial schools. If cost were not a barrier, these schools could then compete with public schools for students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lamar Alexander: Tough Choice | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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