Word: panther
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Bitterness toward the entrenched Washington elite and anxiety over the economy have produced a bumper crop of unconventional challengers. Major-party candidates for Congress run the gamut from a gay Republican activist in Los Angeles to a former Black Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House...
Citing his work with the Black Panther's prison program while an undergraduate, West emphasized the necessity of both types of "cultural work...
...prison program at Norfolk State Prison as a member of the Black Panther Party and worked with Phillips Brooks House...
...hunt, above and below ground, for the 750 hard-core activists who remain on the wanted list. The struggle is bound to be bloody. Whatever the army's success rate, armed resistance is not likely to fade away altogether. As Saleh points out, the killing of a Black Panther or a Red Eagle often prompts volunteers to enlist in the cause. "The violence stems from a political problem," he says. "It requires a political solution" -- and that, as Palestinians see it, means a settlement that would bring about Israeli withdrawal from the territories. Yet the very search for a peaceful...
GEORGE BUSH TURNS 68 ON JUNE 12. A RIPE AGE -- THOUGH he does not yet seem to be a senior citizen, or even a Gray Panther. He's fighting it. "I don't feel old," he says. "I feel young. I feel competitive. I'm ready to charge. I still go to work at 5 a.m. and stay late. I don't get a lot of sleep. I'm not slowing down. Once in a while I get grumpy, but no more than usual...