Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is disturbing about Dines-Levi's appearance for Take Back the Night and the attendant discussion she prompted is the refusal to consider the social and political implications of advocating pornography's censorship. Inevitably, comparisons must be drawn about the similar tactics advocated by the censors of the Left and the censors of the Right...
Dunne, who coordinates women's issues for the Harvard Civil Liberties Union, says that she hopes that women's activism at Harvard will become more organized. The institution of a phone tree similar to one used by NOW in Boston to organize protesters when anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue come to town and the formation of a Harvard Students for Choice group are some of the possibilities to which she looks forward...
Quinn noted that the epidemic in most Latin and Caribbean nations is far behind Africa's, but there are troubling signs that it will follow a similar course...
...commission that Bush set up to recommend changes for an ethics overhaul had called for a ban on honoraria to members of Congress for speaking engagements or similar work. Such honoraria provide thousands of dollars in outside income for senators and representatives in a system that critics, including Bush's ethics panel, contend allows for too much special interest influence on the representatives...
...Moscow I was a welcome guest. I had not experienced such a surge of love and warmth in a long time. Perhaps only once before in my life had I been accorded a similar welcome -- when they brought me to the camp. But that was given to me by those zeks, who, like myself, were classified as "particularly dangerous state criminals." They greeted me as a brother, and the more furiously the newspapers stigmatized and the authorities pressured Daniel and me, the better they treated...