Word: movement
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Speaking to college journalists--and later to more than 1,000 students--at MIT yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley stressed themes that have driven his fairytale candidacy from a musing to a movement...
...convinced ? perhaps rightly ? that they needn't worry about elections until they're rich enough to buy a politician of their own. Campaign-finance reform is being championed by both John McCain and Bill Bradley, and is actually starting to catch on as an issue, yet each finds the movement opposed to varying degrees by their major-party compatriots. The party in power never wants reform, and the party in the minority only pushes for it because they know it will never pass...
...program's founder, Smith Professor of Law Henry J. Steiner, said the organization was created to incorporate the lingua franca of the human rights movement into the framework of the modern-day legal education...
NATO may have reached another eleventh-hour compromise with the Kosovo Liberation Army, but the underlying tension between them over Kosovo?s future is far from resolved. KLA leaders signed an agreement Monday authorizing the disbanding of the guerrilla movement ?- or more correctly, its transformation into a 5,000-member civil defense-style Kosovo Protection Corps. NATO had envisaged the corps as a National Guard equivalent to respond to civilian emergencies, but the KLA viewed it as the nucleus of a national army for the independent Kosovo to which they remain committed. Although NATO has restricted the Kosovo Corps...
...control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers are doing as well as the average public school...