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After a season of little travel and poor equipment, the women decided they would make the try for varsity status. That's where Levin and Fifer came to the forefront...
...axiom of equal rights for all people by which Shahak says he guides his organization has pushed him to the forefront of Israeli political dissidence. Although his group concentrates on individual human rights and thus has no strictly political aim, when Shahak discusses its concerns he touches on a wide range of social and economic ills in Israel. He regards these problems as largely the result of a repressive political and judicial system. The denial of rights to individuals has not only undermined Israel's security, Shahak claims, but has also "blinded" Israel's Jewish population, as well as world...
...begun. Garrity's comprehensive court order, which some feel did not go far enough, forced desegregation, affirmative action and educational innovations onto a resisting system. In the short run it has produced violence and a significant enrollment drop but it has brought the system's mediocrity to the forefront of people's minds. It will take years to change the system but at least now, there is some potential. David Smith said of years past. "The Mayor, [teachers'] union and corporate community might have stepped in and become a public counterweight to the school committee. None of them did." Because...
...been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
...Miami Beach. As Florida's highest-ranking Catholic prelate, Carroll combined strong support for racial justice and the welfare of Cuban refugees with vociferous opposition to liberalization of the church. He lobbied vigorously against the repeal of the no-meat-on-Fridays rule and was in the forefront of the successful battle to defeat Dade County's gay rights ordinance in June...