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...antiwar movement appears to be growing steadily. Last fall the Military Families Support Network was born after University of Wisconsin professor Alex Molnar -- the father of a Marine in Saudi Arabia -- wrote an open antiwar letter to President Bush in the New York Times. The Network began a storefront operation in a Milwaukee suburb with one phone. Today the office has five phones, three computers, a fax machine, two full-time staffers -- and 4,000 member families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising -- But Still Muted -- Dissent | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...opening a storefront, Kinko's makes an informal contract with the community to produce facsimiles for its customers, regardless of content (save copyright and First Amendment restrictions). Thus, the situation becomes as clear-cut as Skokie or Deep Throat...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: Business Should Come First | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

Today Hendrik Jr., 50, sits in a modest storefront in the dusty Transvaal farming village of Morgenzon, trying to persuade fellow whites, in essence, to cut their losses and establish their own small homeland. As a leader of an Afrikaner nationalist group called the Orange Workers, he advocates setting up a separate state, provisionally named Afrikanerland, on roughly 13% of South Africa's territory. Of his father's failed dream, Verwoerd shrugs and says, "People lost faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Angst in Afrikanerdom | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Reaching the intersection of Mass. and WesternAves., the group held signs in front of the TaxMan storefront, trying to inform passing commutersof their cause...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Group Protests U.S. Gulf Role | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...Compass began as a "storefront theater with educational intentions," the creation of two intellectual insurrectionists, Paul Sills and David Shepherd. The actors who gravitated to it made it into a proving ground for improvisational theater and a sort of comedy cabaret for Mensa members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just For Fun THE COMPASS by Janet Coleman | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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