Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of where one stands on the question of rights, restoring ex-offenders' votes will have few practical disadvantages. Most opposition to such a repeal stems from an irrational fear that once given access to the ballot box, ex-offenders will oppose all criminal laws and vote "the wrong way...
Religious conservatives, then, have reason to be just as afraid as liberals. If forbidding conservatives from meeting to talk about why they dislike affirmative action makes liberals look scared, the declaration that the pro-choice position deserves "no public recognition" belies an even more desperate turn to principle in the...
While Malaysia thrived, few complained about Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's authoritarian inclinations. But the Asian economic downturn has thrown his tactics into new focus. He has come under heavy criticism for his treatment of Anwar Ibrahim, his reformist former deputy, who now sits in Sungai Buloh prison accused of...
It's a familiar endgame. UNSCOM workers are returning to Baghdad; they'll resume weapons inspections Tuesday. Iraqi newspapers are declaring victory in the standoff, because it drew attention once more to their country's plight under sanctions. The Clinton administration warily awaits the return of the inspectors and talks...
With this move, Harvard might be heading off potential opposition. Bad blood has been shed over the Fogg and the Sackler before, as Cuno acknowledged when he referred to the University's original proposal to link the Fogg and the Sackler with a bridge over Broadway at the time the...