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Campaign finance reform laws do recognize, however, that the equation of money with speech is fundamentally undemocratic. The current campaign finance system accords an unjust amount of power to the rich. Political donations are a form of speech, to be sure, but $5 contributions are meaningless when dwarfed by $10,000 contributions from wealthy individuals. If anything, it is the current system that is restricting the right to free speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Yes on Question 2 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...derives benefit from a hostile stance toward the United States. Yet there are many leaders in the world, democratically or otherwise empowered, who derive a benefit that may be essential to their maintenance of power from the image that can so easily be created of heroic opposition to the unjust and hostile United States...

Author: By Dan Epstein, | Title: Foggy Thinking in Foggy Bottom | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Rock. But it wasn't until grad school that he attempted to meld his dramatic training with spoken-word performances. Kicking around the improv poetry circuit in Manhattan, he met Levin and landed the main role in Levin's loosely scripted, no-budget feature about victims of unjust drug laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aiming for the Heart | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...good injun is a dead injun" Jackson: Directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent American Indians, Jackson was also personally charged with the murder of two British citizens (a charge not followed up by a pro-expansion Congress, prone to turning the other way if a morally unjust or even criminal act was perceived as good for the building of the American empire). Today Jackson could be tried for genocide, war crimes and double homicide...

Author: By Lansing D. Mcloskey, | Title: Finding Clinton's Place In History | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...victim of unjust punishment, an authority figure with whom the public can empathize. He leads by example, not by rhetoric. He is a man educated by the ruling elite who has always identified with the underprivileged...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Born Into Racism, Mandela Overcomes | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

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