Word: marches
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Well, they're probably like George Bush Jr.--they wouldn't have an abortion themselves, but they don't think the nation is "ready" to ban the practice of abortion. Doesn't sound like a position you could march for. Recently, the first Democratic Governor of California since 1983, Gray Davis, couldn't make up his mind whether illegal immigrants should receive emergency medical care, which a 1994 proposition banned. The proposition was successfully challenged in court, but Davis couldn't simply accept the court's ruling, even though his Republican predecessor had been the one behind...
Even college students have caught the moderation virus. They're anti-affirmative action, but they'd like to see more diversity on campus. They'll march for a living wage for Harvard's workers, but they'll be in an investment bank earning more than 50K in a couple of years. They'll qualify their political leanings with a, "But I voted for/believe in/don't believe in, blank." They don't want to be pigeonholed, labeled or defined. The danger in this is that they are so busy not being labeled, defined or pigeonholed, that they don't take...
...what he called "an amusing wrinkle," Lawrence's CEA predecessor, Jeffrey A. Frankel, resigned from the CEA in March--the month when Lawrence was nominated to the council--and has just accepted a professorship in international finance at the Kennedy School...
...condition of public higher education in Massachusetts is better today than it was five years ago, but we don't intend to rest on our laurels," wrote Carlin and Koplik in a letter to the Members of the Massachusetts Court last March...
...accident occurred March 5 when the clapper snapped off from its counter-weight and pierced a cornice of the steeple during a windstorm...