Word: fought
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...Nixon, Washington-based director of federal relations for the University, who lobbied in favor of the new legislation cited two specific provisions for which Harvard fought...
...really he's just Mr. Peepers. The American male resists the minivan not because he fears he will be emasculated but because he knows he already has been. And of course he's right. His father fought off panzers in the Ardennes; Mr. Peepers gives money to Greenpeace, to protest nuclear testing. His father almost broke his back pouring molten steel eight hours a day; he does aerobics three times a week, in classes taught by a girl. His father drank boilermakers; he sips a nice double-decaf Frappaccino after a day pushing paper, designing software, filing briefs, nurturing children...
...birth certificate. (Cosby's attorney denies the allegation.) Baum traced years of "gifts" bestowed by Cosby, including trust funds and cars for both women and a front-row seat for Jackson at the 1991 taping of the final episode of The Cosby Show. Only after Jackson and her mother fought last December and Jackson began living in her car did Jackson call Cosby. "This is a woman who believes she's his daughter, calling her father for help," Baum told TIME...
Tempted, almost certainly, by the brakeless popularity of the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, Fox this week launches Roar (Mondays, 9 p.m. ET), a show about a reluctant prince named Conor (Heath Ledger) who in 400 A.D. fought to save the last remaining Celtic land (what would become Ireland) from the nasty, enslaving Romans. Never mind that the Roman occupation of Britain was already crumbling by then and that it never extended to Ireland in the first place. Historical exactitude isn't something to be expected from a series with a prince who looks like...
...affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly [NATION, June 23] the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time? King fought against entrenched racism, sought equal rights for all Americans and met vicious opposition. Connerly is fighting an entrenched reverse racism in the name of the same cause and meets vicious opposition as well. But as we stand with Connerly, we shall overcome. THOMAS A. HEPPENHEIMER Fountain Valley, Calif...