Word: wave
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...recent wave of attacks launched against the Baha'i minority by Iranian officials should be of grave concern to all members of the Harvard community. This amplification of Iran's ongoing efforts to destroy the country's Baha'i community constitutes a violation of human rights that takes the particularly insidious form of a full-scale assault on an institution dedicated to higher education...
...wave of death sentences, arrests and harassment bear all the marks of a centrally orchestrated campaign intended to further the declared policy of the Iranian Government to strangle the Baha'i community economically, intellectually and spiritually, in a coercive attempt to force its members' conversion to Islam. This policy became widely known in 1993 when it was accidentally revealed that the Iranian Supreme Revolutionary Council had earlier adopted a position on "The Baha'i Question" in a secret document dated Feb. 25, 1991, and signed by Ayatollah Khamenei. The secret document declared that Baha'is must be expelled from universities...
...Well, I just think my ability to live the fantasy that is my pursuit of artistic pleasure. I'm just a big kid, and for me to sit and watch my daughter hold a spoon and wave it around and sit for ninety minutes believing that it's a kite flying in the sky is the same thing as me reading One Tough Cop and saying, "Geez, you know, if I gain 30 pounds, and talk like this, and if she can convince herself of that and enjoy that and I can convince myself of that and enjoy...
...sure where I fit in. I still get peeved when a rustic bicycle with a metal basket on the handlebars--undoubtedly a refugee from the French countryside--knocks into me at the crosswalk. Whenever I see a new silver VW Beetle whiz through Mt. Auburn Street, a wave of nostalgia hits me as I long for the days of punchbuggy yellows...
...heat is on Republican legislators to pass hate crimes legislation protecting gays from attack. The beating death of a young gay University of Wyoming student is galvanizing a wave of gay rights activism across the U.S., and President Clinton on Monday urged Congress to pass the Federal Hate Crimes Protection act. The legislation adds gender, disability and sexual orientation to current hate-crimes laws covering attacks based on race, color, religion or national origin. National debate will be further fueled by a Supreme Court decision Tuesday to uphold a Cincinnati decision to eliminate discrimination protections for gays and lesbians...