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Although inclement weather may have deterred many voters, more ardent supporters did not miss the opportunity to endorse the candidates for whom they have been lobbying all summer. Education, crime and job creation were at the forefront of theissues which most concerned candidates and voters...
Other candidates at the forefront of the raceduring the past week witnessed significantsupport...
...story to the fight for government attention and funding, from the gay community's reaction to the health crisis to the media's inadequate early coverage of it. The film has a hero: Modine plays Don Francis, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control who was at the forefront of early work on the disease. He voices most of Shilts' anti-Establishment outrage and gets most of the best lines. "How many people have to die to make it cost-efficient for you people to do something about it?" he shouts at a meeting where the nation's blood...
...fundamentalist challenge takes two main forms. In the forefront is the traditional, more moderate approach of the 65-year-old Muslim Brotherhood, a religious, charitable and educational movement that abandoned the use of violence in 1971. It issued a statement last week denouncing the bombing as a "dangerous evil...
Near the Mexican border of Guatamala, in the Maya city of Dos Pilas and the surrounding Petexbatun region, Arthur Demarest's excavations have put him at the forefront of the revisionists. He divides the history of the region into two periods: before 761 and after. Before that year, he says, wars were well- orchestrated battles to seize dynastic power and procure royal captives for very public and ornate executions. But after 761, he notes, "wars led to wholesale destruction of property and people, reflecting a breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors...