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...Leave a piece of canvas or finished painting on the floor or in the street” to “Lighting Piece,” “Light a match and watch till it goes out” represented the vanguard of New York conceptual art before the term “conceptual” even existed. Well before her 1969 marriage to Lennon, perhaps the decade’s most memorable “event,” Ono had already been nominated “The High Priestess of the Happening” by the Liverpool...
...move that would place Cambridge on the vanguard of educational reform, School Superintendent Bobbie J. D’Alessandro wants to redistribute city public school students on socio-economic, rather than simply racial, lines...
...Laden's networks, both emerged in situations where democratic channels were closed to Islamists and other opposition groups. In the case of Pakistan, the authoritarian regime of the late General Zia ul-Haq actually encouraged the emergence of Islamist groups as a bulwark against domestic leftists and a vanguard to fight the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan. Now, some of those same Islamists may be coming back to haunt the current military government...
...outside regional parliament buildings. It can be seen in the attacks on hundreds of police and military posts. In the past, these very same people would have let themselves be robbed of their voices, but now they are fighting back. Whether they realize it or not, they are the vanguard of a social revolution. Now the nation needs a leader. We've fallen behind; Indonesia is exhausted...
...SunAmerica initiative is a bell ringer because it is an exemption and requires no change of law. If Labor approves it, other plan administrators, including mutual-fund powerhouses Fidelity and Vanguard, would probably go for their own exemptions, and conceivably within a year, access to full-service advice would be part of most large 401(k) plans, as well as 403(b)s for nonprofits and 457s for government workers...