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...group, the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), had not used the Endangered Species Act to entangle Pacific Lumber in a web of lawsuits. The web may be fragile; Pacific's executives were crowing over the recent "Sweet Home" decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington that could weaken U.S. rules on the modification or degradation of wildlife habitat...
Director of the Civil Liberties Union ofHarvard Eric D. Miller '96 said admitting menwould strengthen RUS, not weaken its role as asupport for women...
Others deny the need for African Americans to repudiate openly other African Americans who express antiwhite or anti-Semitic sentiments. They maintain that public repudiations of this sort undermine African-American unity, sap the group's morale and consequently weaken it before a hostile society. They are mistaken. At the moment, an excess of conformity is far more dangerous than an excess of dissension to the well-being of the African-American community. A paucity of searching, highly public scrutiny of African-American leadership has had a disastrous effect on the tone of African-American political culture, rendering it vulnerable...
...tactic: stress the isolated acts of violence committed by a few members of the pro-life movement in order to weaken the whole movement and its struggle against violence...
...partisan support he received during the election has absolutely no bearing on his own political leanings and will not weaken CCA-Independent relations in the Council, Reeves says...