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...classical Greek literature and professor of comparative literature, and who will step down at the end of the year after five years as house master, said that he and his wife are not involved in the search. "I sense that the way the community is handling it is very grass-roots," he said...
...Democratic Russia movement could serve as a power base for Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, now that his republic is at the forefront of the struggle against what he calls the "reactionary turnabout." Yeltsin enjoys broad support among average Soviets, but he has no effective grass-roots political organization. He also has no reliable forum for defending himself against increasingly vicious personal attacks from Kremlin-controlled television...
...focus not on the big events but on the sociological shifts that the decade engendered. The people interviewed are, for the most part, not well-known personalities but articulate ordinary people: campus activists, Vietnam veterans, former hippies, union leaders, teachers, parents. Many of the clips have a grass-roots freshness (a dropout cheerfully concludes an impromptu lecture on the evils of the work ethic by saying, "So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States"). And if there are some curious historical lapses (the show recounts the collapse of Lyndon Johnson's presidency without once mentioning...
Stepping forth once again into the arena of foreign affairs, the City Council urged President Bush Monday night to withdraw all U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf and called on city residents to join a last minute grass-roots effort to avoid...
...fact, though we would have been perfectly within our rights to begin delivering speeches from the steps, we chose to move on to the grass in front of the church to avoid an ugly situation...