Word: wave
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These acts of violence are contemporaneous with a wave of anti-gay comments voiced last summer by the highest ranking members of Congress, especially Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). A coalition of Christian groups simultaneously launched a print-media campaign (to be followed up by television ads later this spring) arguing that homosexuals are deceived and diseased persons who threaten the stability of the nation. Cloaked in the rhetoric of love and healing, this campaign, waged by the likes of presidential aspirant Gary Bauer, uses religion as a tool of political ambition. Among its many targets are state...
...they wield little influence over what happens inside. That responsibility has rested in the hands of superintendents, school boards and unions, whose often fractious interests result in personal fiefdoms and byzantine politics that keep bickering high and student achievement low. But Archer's ascension is the latest in a wave of public school takeovers, from Chicago and Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, N.Y., and New Orleans. Mayors in these and other cities have all gained--or are in the process of gaining--control of public schools and are adopting aggressive reforms through handpicked boards and superintendents...
...many in the education community are questioning whether the wave of anti-sweatshop protest is an indigenous resurgence of campus activism or the handiwork of a powerful outside agitator--organized labor. Since he took over the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney has brought labor's cause to campus, pouring more than $3 million into internships and outreach programs meant to interest students in careers as union activists. Indeed, it was summer stints at unions that first alerted Romer-Friedman and other students to the sweatshop issue...
...February the women who were assaulted by Elster and Douglas spoke out for the first time, prompting a wave of campus protests about Harvard's methods of dealing with rape prevention and counseling of victims of sexual assault...
...Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group operating out of California, released a report last week that sent a tidal wave through one of the least practical industries in America. It turns out that bottled water, according to the group, is hardly any better than tap water--in fact, 17 percent of the samples tested by the group flunked the water industry's own purity standards. The group accompanied the report with a call for tighter FDA regulations on bottled water and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J) said last Tuesday he would introduce a bill that would...