Word: combatative
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...Oscars are the Super Bowl for the rest of us - those of us who know that professional jealousy and bitchy remarks about designer clothes make for far more riveting combat than full-body blows, who know that Miramax's eternal ability to buy itself a Best Picture nomination is far more consequential than Bobby Knight's eternal ability to find himself another job coaching, um, hockey? And thankfully, it now has its own bloated pre-game show: not ABC's paltry, sycophantic half-hour with "Entertainment Tonight"'s addled Julie Moran, but the E! Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which...
...Future plans to promote Ensler's agenda include an HBO special, a series of monologues geared toward younger girls and a grant program to fund creative ways to combat rape...
Cohen believed the members of the Brigade deserved to be remembered because they had valiantly fought against a fascist army before the U.S. officially declared war on international fascism. He saw their combat as the ultimate example of heroism and commitment to the democratic principle of freedom. But others around the state clamored that the Brigaders had been agents of a Soviet plan to spread communism around the world...
...Spanish Republic's defeat, they yearned for democracy's victory over fascism, for the chance to participate in the triumph of good over evil. An unwritten policy of the U.S. Army barred the Lincoln vets from the front lines; like blacks during the war, the Brigaders, despite their combat experience, were relegated to demeaning tasks far from battlefields. In the 1950s, communist witch-hunters imprisoned and fined veterans of the Brigade because of their present or former affiliation to the Communist Party...
Others who spoke at yesterday's event also said they felt it was a top priority to organize Harvard's different ethnic groups into a coalition to combat ethnic stereotyping and racism...