Word: encompass
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What do the Ku Klux Klan and the Boy Scouts have in common? Not much. But recently, the fight against discrimination--once targeted at obvious villians such as the Klan and the American Nazi Party--has broadened to encompass such symbols of Americans as the Boy Scouts, the Army and the St. Patrick's Day Parade...
Harvard's race relations bureaucracy has a lot of problems, but one tops the list: The Foundation has no clear sense of its own mandate. Is race limited to ethnicity? Or are this organization's programs supposed to encompass all marginalized views--including those of gays and, in some instances, women...
...that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused women...
Milosevic has a dream of a Greater Serbia that will encompass large swatches of Bosnia, Croatia and the disputed province of Kosovo. The Serb leader has carved out a section of Croatia already, and now is on the verge of solidifying his control over much of Bosnia...
...organization can encompass all ofHarvard's 1,600-person Jewish population, andFinestone estimates that in a typical week onlyabout 19 to 21 percent of Harvard's Jewishpopulation visits the building...