Word: vanguardism
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...heroes of Japan's go-go era, driving their Bentleys and Rolls Royces, living in their mansions, dating their exotic blond girlfriends. This was the period, remember, when Japan was going to take over the world. Men like Joji Obara cast themselves as the Fibe Mini warriors on the vanguard of this Japanese invasion. Naoko Tomono, a journalist who has written extensively about Lucie's case for the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshon, offers a surprising insight into how some men in Obara's age group perceive his infamy as a serial rapist: "They respect him as a man comfortable going...
...largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White...
...Student activists have long made a difference in American life, and Harvard students have been in the vanguard of those movements. Today’s protest continues that proud tradition...
...vanguard of this conceptualization of soft money is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Two years ago, the ACLU opposed a forerunner of the McCain-Feingold bill on the grounds that banning soft money would "chill free expression." These same dire warnings were echoed in a New York Times op-ed piece last week where the authors (one of whom is general counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union) sought to prove that banning soft money is tantamount to "prohibit[ing] speech...
...thoughtless dismissal of Van Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line of editing for most of Hughes's career. His role as both editor and promoter of Hughes's work places Van Vechten...