Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Proudly displaying his nine RATM T-shirts, poster-encrusted Greenough suite and collected discography, Thomas stakes his claim as the group's "biggest fanatic." The obsession began during his sophomore year of high school. It grew when he wrote a 20-page research paper on the 1994 Zapatista rebellion, a Mexican peasant uprising that RATM has discussed in its lyrics. "[The group] is historically accurate," Thomas said. "That got me more into their politics...
...President Dave Checkouts said the week he traded for him, Sprewell is a "a poster boy for bad behavior...
...long legal fight has turned Kevin into a poster dad for the Family and Medical Leave Act, now six years old. Though about 2 million people a year take parental leave under the act, only half a million of them are men. Kevin is working to even the scales. He has testified before a federal commission and even got a mention in Hillary Rodham Clinton's book It Takes a Village. But the biggest changes are back home. When he and his wife had their second child, in 1996, Kevin was granted a full 12 weeks of paid leave...
Principled objection to capital punishment is a legitimate political position that is shared by significant portion of this country's electorate. Supporting the murderer of a police officer is a lot harder for Middle America to swallow. Death penalty opponents do themselves no favors by making Jamal their poster child. Then again, it's hard to see how anyone benefits from their association with Jamal, but it is easiest to understand why the radical left can't help itself...
Additionally, the front window displays a "Free Mumia" poster. Revolution Books is one of very few bookstores to carry Abu-Jamal's book, Live from Death Row, O'Leary says...