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...great extent, the bureaucratization of the date rape question has also defanged the grass-roots campus debate and exhausted its momentum...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Date Rape Debate Ends, Controversy to Continue | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...many roving Democratic poobahs who have recently fanned out across the country in a barrage of talk shows and sound bites--revivalists urging their congregations to listen to Clinton and be saved. These messengers of goodwill have been sent out to make nice with the locals and drum up grass-roots support that will convince mean old nasty Congress to pass Clinton's economic plan. This may be the first administration that has home and away games...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: On the Campaign Trail | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...clubs not to work together as the election neared, even if only one pursued "action". As a good Democrat, however, I am encouraged to see that the complete disorganization and disruption evidenced by Pat Buchanan's speech at the Republican National Convention last year has extended down to the grass roots. And I highly recommend all future HRAC meetings as an excellent source of an hour's entertainment...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pandemonium on the Right | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...appearance and meetings with business executives and legislators. The pace will pick up sharply this week: immediately after the speech to Congress, Cabinet members will fan out to radio and TV shows to plug the program, and some will be dispatched to their home state to begin grass-roots lobbying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Arms | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...groups that were previously suppressed and excluded not only from academic discourse, but from mainstream America in general. They were part of a larger grassroots movement that produced civil rights for African Americans and women. The movement for Latino and Asian American studies at Harvard, by contrast, is not grass roots but top-down, spearheaded almost entirely by the officials of campus ethnic organizations and confined to closed meetings between stodgy administrators and frustrated student activists...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Multicultural Malaise | 1/27/1993 | See Source »

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