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First, the liberal campus press has succeeded in demonizing the right. Conservatives, because of the powerful groups arrayed against them, make their voices strident and loud--merely so they can be heard. When they do, they are portrayed as fanatics, fundamentalists, or just plain nasty people you wouldn't like to be around...
...economic conditions are allowed to festerand not improve, that would create a conditionencouraging strident different groups, like Hamas,to grow," said Dorot Professor of the Archaeologyof Israel Lawrence E. Stager '65. "And it isimportant for the whole world community to seethat it improves...the U.S. has a major role...
...unite!" Certainly the image of Rabin and Arafat, once implacable enemies, standing together on the White House lawn captures the drama of the moment more vividly than these words. But the Arafat-Rabin letters will echo loudly through history precisely because of their practical quality. War cries tend to strident emotionalism, while bitter enemies feeling their way toward reconciliation speak wisely in tones of caution. In this case the very flatness of the words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal. The veteran antagonists had actually put on paper the idea that...
Over the years, Restic has become one of the few remaining strident defenders of the student-athlete in the nation...
Operating from jungle hideouts, Pol Pot and his men began their comeback late in 1985, when the Vietnamese army seemed on the verge of wiping the movement out. Pol Pot joined with other anti-Vietnamese forces and launched an ideological campaign based on strident nationalism. His forces dropped all references to building a communist state. Villagers in Khmer Rouge zones were encouraged to cultivate their own plots and raise their own livestock, an approach designed to appeal to the 6 million subsistence farmers who form the bulk of Cambodia's 9 million inhabitants. During the early years...