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...Strident anti-abortion warriorsOperation Rescueset up shop today in the same Dallas office building as the health clinic that employs the woman whose landmark 1973 court case legalized abortion in the U.S. Only an interior wall separates the neighbors. Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, told Reuters she is not exactly thrilled with her new neighbors, but the clinic has no intention of moving out: "We are here for the duration."Operation Rescue'snational director Flip Benham said: "It's a tremendous place. At the killing center, at the gates of Hell, is where the church...
Nicholas Kitchen, the first violinist, immediately showed his fine command of dynamics in the opening melody, but his tone became a little strident, undermining the carefree quality of the movement in its recapitulation. He fortunately saved some of the stridence for the bold, personal statements of the second movement's Largo ma non troppo. In the cantabile section of the movement, violist Hsin'Yun Hwang offered solo playing of utmost sincerity with none of dryness that pervades chamber music today...
With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...much as frown at Robert Novak on CNN's Capital Gang. He can shout me down, insisting I don't know what I'm talking about and be deluged with fan mail. If I go so far as to say "Let me finish," letters arrive about how strident and shrill I am -- and, yes, what a bitch...
...outdated model of strident minority activism may have worked in the '60s for Blacks and other groups, but it won't work today for Asian-Americans. The separatist paradigm, by stressing difference and discrimination, simply alienates our mainstream (white) allies and creates division within our ranks...