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...think at this point, the Macedonian questions over the region are really in the back burner; it's not as hot and sensitive as it was two years ago," she said...
...Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Association, a union which represented 256 employees, held a two-week-long strike that threatened the well-being of the University's facilities. As a result of the work stoppage, police officers put fighting crime on the back burner and began collecting the trash...
Such is the effect of an American foreign policy that sees the national interest as the self-interest which is good for business. In return for China's yuan, the United States will place its abuse of human rights on the back burner. The Clinton Administration perpetuates Sino-American trade even at the cost of Tibetan repression, the suppression of free thought and the jailing of dissidents. Dollars come before democracy when the pair cannot be promoted together...
...groomed. That's when he got his first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms often worked...
Longley replaces Michael G. Burner, by all accounts the soul of Harvard's UNIX system, who left two summers ago, Burner was described by one student last year as the "god-upon-god on Harvard UNIX systems...