Word: reassertions
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...Harvard students last year for an ethnic studies curriculum, as well the daunting success of California's Proposition 209 last November should suffice as reason for sustained and intensified student dialogue about ethnic studies and affirmative action. For society and politics to responsibly address these issues, student activism must reassert its commitment to socially suppressed viewpoints...
...Democratic tradition dating back to Reconstruction, elected two Republican Senators and shifted its House delegation from 6-to-3 Democratic to 5-to-4 Republican. Two retirees, Jamie Quillen (R) and Harold Ford (D) will probably not affect the balance this year. But Democrats are hoping tradition will reassert itself--especially in the Vice President's state--and allow them to take the state of the Grand Ole Opry away from the Grand Old Party...
...Clinton who used his speech to reassert his role as Daddy-in-Chief, while making sure to abide by the Morris-inspired axiom of triangulation politics: Keep ideology out of it, and keep it modest. The President had declared the era of Big Government over, so it would be hard to condemn him for thinking small. But when it comes to families, Clinton said, you can think big about many small things. His laundry-list speech included tuition tax credits, adoption tax credits, money for child care, child-nutrition programs, literacy initiatives, family leave, even an environmental measure to help...
...sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 5536. But majority opinion is that such drops will turn out to be only the latest of many fleeting downdrafts. Most analysts, rightly or wrongly, rate the risk of bailing...
...scholar at the University of Michigan. ''Society is now without a sure sense of what China is all about.'' With no better alternatives, leaders emphasize stability and nationalism. "The government is uncertain," explains Robert Sutter, a China expert at the Congressional Research Service, "and that leads them to reassert control as much as they...