Word: wave
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...University fails to act decisively, it will have opened the floodgates for a wave of swelling and ever-more violent attempts at "censorship" among student groups. Let the University fulfill its obligation to impartially administer its rules and protect the rights of all student groups, and so avert an inevitable and pernicious collapse from protected free speech into a campus-wide brawl in which vandalism and personal threats are the encouraged modes of expressing disagreement. Tung Le '96 Press Secretary, AALARM Harvard
...were in a war in the 60s, but we're in a much greater war now, a holy war," said Baird in response to the new wave of violence and statements from Catholic officials like Boston's Cardinal...
...issue of empire adds a complicating element to his reception in this country. American publishers, catering to a society which still insists on racially segregated literary traditions, tout Phillips as a part of a "new wave of young Black writers," along with novelists like Darryl Pinckney and Charles Johnson. But Phillips says he fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have...
...while the streets of Paris rang with victory celebrations? Now as the results of last week's parliamentary vote flickered across the TV screen, the numbers confirmed what all had suspected: the Socialist era was over in France. Mitterrand's party had been swamped by a right-wing tidal wave that swept up 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats and confronted the lame-duck President with the most lopsided conservative majority since the monarchy was restored...
...video from your home to any other - paving the way for video phones that will be as ubiquitous and easy to use as TV. The same system will allow anybody with a camcorder to distribute videos to the world - a development that could open the floodgates to a wave of new filmmaking talent or a deluge of truly awful home movies...