Word: civilizations
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...symbolic significance, the writersargue that this significance appears in partbecause the riots are seen as a creation myth anda rallying point of the queer fight for civilrights. We must, however, never forget theimportance of the history that broke the groundfor the organization of the 1970s. Warning ofdangers to gay civil rights--in the last twentyyears influential Republicans like PatrickBuchanan, Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich havespoken against homosexuality--the authors manageto convey the importance of the organizationalstructure established through the efforts of thepre-Stonewall activists and which became empoweredby the riots...
...Civil rights, abortions, gay rights-white males look at these issues, and they're not especially relevant," he said...
Halliday also said many menial positions inIraq now pay more than civil service posts...
Guinier became a national name when President Clinton, a classmate from Yale Law School, nominated her to be an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in 1993. She was immediately attacked by conservatives, who claimed that her writings on voting issues supported racial quotas. Clinton later withdrew his nomination...
...rarely been expressed by Harvard students. It is worth considering whether this silence is because very few happen to hold these views or because those who do have been made to feel that they are not free to express those views. In The Shadow University, their new book about civil liberties on America's university campuses, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate examine the effects of campus speech codes--which some universities have adopted in the name of protecting designated groups. They conclude that these policies have had a stifling effect on free expression. As a private institution, Harvard College...