Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Official business is really the key to the diplomatic immunity argument," Myers said, explaining why the immunity might not protect Pinochet...
...hate crime isn't just an attack on an individual, but on a whole community. For every Matthew Shepard there are a hundred gay men and lesbians who will be forced back into the closet out of fear. Governments must protect all their citizens by taking a firm stand to prevent such brutal intimidation. NIKKI L. DEBLOSI '99 ADAM A. SOFEN '01 Oct. 16, 1998 The writers are co-chairs of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Transgender and Supporters' Association. Sofen is a Crimson editor...
...four weeks, in which again and again the Republican leaders signaled that they were determined to Uphold the Rule of Law, even if they had to burn it down in the process. Starr's report was published before any lawmakers had even read it, much less edited it to protect innocent bystanders. Clinton's supposedly secret grand jury testimony was released after a party-line vote, and the vote to launch an inquiry was scheduled before anyone had discussed, much less decided, whether even the worst assertions against the President met the legal standard for impeachable offenses...
...Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long-awaited and ultimately somewhat tepid repentance for Christian treatment of Jews up to and during the Holocaust. The document defends Pius in both its body and a spirited footnote; the refusal to acknowledge his faults, critics claim, made the whole enterprise...
...death of young activist David Chain while he was attempting to save the redwoods in California [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 28]. The most basic disagreement between the environmental movements and the business community continues to be the rights of landowners and companies to profit from their investments vs. the need to protect and preserve the source of those profits. I consider myself an environmentalist, but until we find a way to make the environment an economic issue, we'll never be able to battle the lure of economic gain derived from its riches. When the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and the rest...