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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-war radical Abbie Hoffman was being prosecuted for conspiracy as part of the infamous Chicago Seven trial. After taking the witness stand to testify in his own defense, he was asked about his employment. Hoffman listed a variety of jobs, including stints as a campaign operative for Massachusetts anti-war candidates, publicity director for the NAACP, and an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee...
...battle for definition needs to be fought over more than the words "liberal" and "conservative." Many terms and expressions used as part of the common American political dialogue contain a prior subjective definition which skews their meaning automatically to the right. During the next four years, the right wing will continue to hold the language of politics hostage. The following is a glossary of the continuing political re-definitions of some old words...
OVER Thanksgiving break I got a lot older. Suddenly events and people conspired to make me feel less like a boy and more like a beginner grown-up. Part of it was fun, like moving from the kiddy table to the Big People's table during Thanksgiving dinner. But most of it was unsettling, like the subtle change in my uncle's standard question from "So, what are you going to be when you grow up?" to the more threatening, "So what are you going to do?" I experienced what an understanding senior in my hall calls "pre-life crisis...
...former research fellow at the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center (EEPC) said this week he lost his job in part because he questioned the "integrity" of the data in another scholar's federally sponsored project...
...Obviously (now obviously!), the first threemonths of observations differ from the rest by afactor of 10," the memo reads in part. Itconcludes, "I shudder to think that other casesmight go unnoticed if we don't take action...