Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alert signal has been sent loudly and unavoidably to those opposed to statehood. It remains on their hands to listen to the voice of history and adapt their expectations to reality. They can either resign themselves to the notion that the needy pockets of the island's poor are mightier than their hearts, or they can refuel the struggle for the defense of our national identity and right to self-determination. The hope of Puerto Rico lies in their ability to look intimidatingly at the eyes of fear--and defeat it at its own game...
...long as it is not too public. It is a strange definition of free speech and religious liberty, they note, that prohibits mention of God. "Angela Davis, a communist, was the speaker at my son's high school graduation," says Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson. "People have to listen to the most heavy-handed dogmatism. Then suddenly the Constitution is violated if an agnostic hears the word God. This is absurd. If we have to put up with things we don't agree with, why is only God excluded...
...when these contracts expired and the growers illegally signed contracts with the Teamsters Union, the UFW again called on the American public to boycott grapes. Farm workers and volunteers left California and travelled across the country visiting churches, universities, community organizations, politicians and others who would listen...
Brown's editorial is also similar to the Peninsula issue in that he asserts things that are simply wrong. According to Brown, Gomes says we have "no way of drawing any legitimate precept from the Bible of the Fathers." I don't know whose sermons Brown has been listening to. Certainly not Gomes's. I've heard every sermon preached in Memorial Church this year and I remember quite clearly hearing Gomes say not once but many times that the Bible is the source of moral precepts. The writers of Peninsula cannot both champion the cause of open debate...
...Magic's personal tragedy in a good news/bad news light, the fact remains that this 32-year-old athlete without a college degree has a chance to do what thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, doctors, teachers and advertisers have failed to do: get the American public, at long last, to listen to the facts about AIDS, to stop killing each other with unsterile needles and unprotected sex. Magic got tested--even if it was only for his insurance--and got his results. Anyone who has been exposed should be tested...