Word: cohort
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...ranches were theirs until the government foreclosed on them for nonpayment of loans and taxes. Around Garfield County nearly everybody seems to have friends or even family holed up there. But sympathy for the fugitives has been hard to find. The common view is that the Clarks and their cohort are sore losers in the perilous game of farming and ranching. "They just sit up there dreamin' up things to be a public nuisance," says rancher Tom Wilson. "We're all sick of it." But everywhere there's a strong desire for a bloodless settlement. "We think they were...
...call on the Congress to separate the issues of legal and illegal immigration for the purposes of saving legal immigration. This is a practical aim and should be pursued by politicians interested in ideas more than lip service. The students label Simpson's proposal S. 1394 and his House-cohort Representative Lamar Smith's H.R. 2202 as "outrageous." They might better be termed "un-American." In this way, students could more ably fight a patriotic battle for the immigrant soul of this country...
Last week leaders of Hamas' political wing publicly asked their military cohort to suspend their attacks. The political leaders were apparently worried that Arafat would begin shutting down the many institutions of Hamas--schools, clinics, mosques, charities--that anchor it deeply in the Palestinian community. In a leaflet, the military wing purportedly acceded. Ghazi, however, insists the document was a fraud. "I tell you frankly and clearly, there is no truce," he says. "We will continue...
What that means for traditional Republicans is that the Buchanan cohort is large and desirable but maybe also impossible to accommodate. The issues--and the answers--that excite them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to declare Buchanan beyond the pale. William Bennett, the moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned...
ADOLF HITLER AND HIS JACKbooted cohort had Horst Wessel and Wagner's Teutonic blood-music to get them in the mood. Former neo-Nazi hooligan Ingo Hasselbach and his Doc Martens--style head bangers had Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols...