Word: massing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mass. Ave. marks the dividing line between “old Harvard” and “new Harvard”. On one side sits the Yard, the President’s office, the admissions office—all the trappings of a diverse twenty-first century university. On the other side stand the vestiges of “old Harvard”—the Porcellian, A. D., Fly, Owl, Delphic, Fox, Phoenix S. K., and Spee Clubs—the eight remaining all-gentleman’s final clubs of a bygone...
...December 1984 marked year when the presidents of the then-nine final clubs decided to disassociate from the University rather than admit women. But though the official bridge across the Mass. Ave. divide has been burned, relations between the University and the clubs remain complicated...
...Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...
...mainstream pro-life movement operates as protest groups usually do - within the law, by peaceful means, working for legislative change on the one hand and cultural change on the other. But there is an uncomfortable consistency in the logic of the extremists: If abortion providers are mass child killers and the law refuses to act, the vigilante may see himself as the lone defender of justice - as vigilantes usually do. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who in 1991 was arrested while protesting in front of Tiller's office, released a statement that began, "Dr. Tiller was a mass murderer...
...identifying himself as Scott Roeder asked in 2007 whether anyone had considered going to Tiller's church to ask the doctor about his work. (Operation Rescue's president has denounced the crime, calling it a "cowardly act." The group's founder, Randall Terry, issued a statement calling Tiller a "mass murderer" whose "hands were covered with blood.") Read "Right-Wing Reactions to Tiller Murder...