Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked about being more activist andmore drastic," Tom says. "But I'm afraid that wewould inspire negative repercussions. We couldnever recreate the spirit of the '60s, and I thinknow we would be seen as extremist, and would thenbe ineffective...
After the thrashing she took on editorial pages last year as a multicultural extremist and a "quota queen," it seems that Lani Guinier '71 is coming back with a vengeance. In addition to her long-held tenured professorship at Penn law school, she's been hot on the lecture circuit, she's published her first book and her ideas are now given serious consideration as potential solutions to current voting rights problems. "Call it Lani Guinier's Revenge," says The New York Times. What's more, she's been invited to speak at Harvard as this year's Class...
...attack, as well as for three incidents on Thursday, in which one Israeli died and five others were wounded. On Friday, Israeli soldiers and Palestinians clashed after the Rev. Jesse Jackson pleaded for peace outside the Hebron mosque where 30 Muslims were shot dead by an Israeli extremist in February. Eight Palestinians were injured in the violence...
...moves denounced by the P.L.O. as merely "cosmetic," Israel vowed to crack down on extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied territories (but arrested only a handful) and released nearly 1,000 Palestinian detainees. Meanwhile, during rioting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the Hebron mosque massacre, Israeli soldiers killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded dozens of others...
Recognizing the relatively new threat of Jewish terrorism, the army has called for the arrest of five known leaders of the extremist Kach party to which Goldstein belonged and the disarming of others. Several Cabinet members have even proposed banning Kach altogether and treating it as a terrorist organization, like Hamas or Islamic Jihad.(Kach was already barred from the government in 1988 for being "racist and undemocratic...