Word: standing
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...government to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies and priorities; to safeguard academic freedom and student rights and to affirm the student citizens' dignity and worth." Here, then, is the heart of the mission of our student government. The council must stand up for student interests, not as an appropriation of power from some other entity, but because if we do not give voice to our concerns, no one will care. The administration hardly gives a damn anyway...
...President. And every time you think you have spotted firm, sensible, conservative ground, there is the Democratic President already crouching in ambush. "If this keeps up, Bill Clinton won't have to make speeches anymore," Dole grumbled last week. "All he'll have to do is find out my stand on an issue...
...more significant, the troops' loyalty may be crucial to Yeltsin after the election is over. "The possibility that Yeltsin might need the army to stay in power is very high," says a senior Russian defense analyst. During the failed hard-line coups of 1991 and '93, the army's stand was crucial...
...test of her mettle is now. "I knew it would take 20 years, 25 years to seed a movement," she says. "You just have to keep planting and watering and fertilizing. And then, when it is time, you do what you have to do. But you have to stand up--win, lose or draw. And it's time...
Edelman has summoned Americans to a rally at the Lincoln Memorial this Saturday to Stand for Children. Like the Million Man March, the event is less about defining an agenda than it is about evoking a spirit--and filling what organizers see as a terrifying vacuum of leadership and resolve at a time when every premise about what this country owes its children is being challenged. "Children are never going to get what they need until there is a fundamental change in the ethos that says it is not acceptable to cut children first," says Edelman of the current budget...