Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's end, the White House had sent Foster out to defend himself-- though not, Washington insiders point out, to anyone who will actually decide his fate. The doctor appeared first on abc's Nightline--``a pretty dignified public forum,'' in the words of an Administration source. As a sign of support, Administration officials insisted that host Ted Koppel interview Foster in the White House; when Lani Guinier found herself fighting to save her nomination as head of the civil rights division of the Justice Department in 1993, she appeared on Nightline against Administration wishes. Foster also spoke last Friday...
Lawson then rose to defend...
...speech itself Ms. Streisand addressed the topic of "The Artist as Citizen." During the course of her address, Streisand toed the typical leftist Hollywood line with its emphasis on freedom of expression. She used her time to call for more public funding of the arts, to defend liberalism and the counter-culture and to attack the Republican Party. In particular, she complained about the Republican Party's stance on many social issues, and its emphasis on traditional values...
Sandler also said he was investigating thepasts of Contescu and Dunn to defend Harrop in thetenants' civil suit...
...reading of the exhibit script last August led me to a different conclusion. I figured that with curators who could describe the Pacific war thus: "For most Americans ... it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism," there was no point in negotiating. You don't amend such tendentious anti-Americanism. You kill it. You scrap the 600-page commentary and follow the advice of General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb: display the restored Enola Gay in reverent silence, with only...