Word: ivan
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Many of those responsible for the worst atrocities not only remain free, but they also retain power in the towns and cities where they wreaked such devastation, in a position to begin all over again. "The only way Bosnians will ever feel safe," says Ivan Lupas, a human-rights investigator, "is if those responsible for the killings are punished." Deputy prosecutor Blewitt says at the Hague, "People explain this war as revenge for atrocities done in the past that were never punished. We have got to stop that cycle." The countrymen of the perpetrators also need the balm of justice...
...suitors were Raymond Smith and Ivan Seidenberg, CEOs of telephone gargantuans Bell Atlantic and NYNEX. Their moment came in February as they watched Bill Clinton sign the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which paved the way for last week's $22 billion merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX. The new company, to be called Bell Atlantic, will have revenues of nearly $27 billion, second only to those of AT&T in the business, and will offer a wealth of data services to about 36 million East Coast customers--some 22% of all U.S. subscribers...
...Hampshire, the students hope to put into practice many of the techniques they will learn at the IOP--visiting high schools, colleges, malls and coffee houses to encourage young adults to vote, according to Youth Vote Co-founder Ivan Frishberg...
...would like to lend our full-fledged support to Youth Vote, which seems a solid, well-thought-out attempt to combat voter apathy in the United States. And voter apathy is certainly a problem. According to conference organizer Ivan Frishberg, who is also higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the overall voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election was 63.1 percent, and the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was only 43 percent. Turnouts for non-presidential elections are usually much lower...
...campaign kick-off that's being held at the IOP [will help] about 500 youth and student leaders from across the country to learn skills related to bringing out the youth vote, how to run a voter registration drives and how to run voter education projects," said Ivan Frishberg, higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and an organizer of the Youth Vote '96 campaign...