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...part because conservatives at Harvard are a persecuted lot. A Harvard conservative who mentions having an anti-abortion stance or being attached to the free market quickly gets classified with Ghengis Khan and Attila the Hun. Mentioning that you have some moral qualms about homosexuality will draw the wrath of most of College. The isolation and marginalization of Harvard conservatives partly explains why AALARM proclaimed "traditional values" in such a reactionary...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: How Liberals Made AALARM | 10/30/1990 | See Source »

...Navy Sea/Air/Land (SEAL) team who followed Kerrey into battle in Vietnam voice similar sentiments. The fact that he lost a leg and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" is part of Kerrey's political appeal. It also shields him from some of the voter wrath that would rain down on other politicians if they dared to be equally outspoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB KERREY: A Senator Of Candor | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...meantime, the opposition cannot be overlooked or intimidated. In the movie rental case of Daytona, Barry Frelich--founder of FOFA and a victim of the state attorney's wrath--and other owners agreed to implement their own system of patrols on pornographic material. Among the terms they were willing to agree to were the elimination of videos showing child pornography and a system of checking identification to ensure that minors do not get access to inappropriate materials...

Author: By Linda Liu, | Title: Sense, Not Censorship | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

...people who attended the meeting viewed a film produced by the UFW called "Wrath of Grapes" that depicted children who had developed cancer as a result of pesticide use. The film criticized grape producers and blamed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its lax standards...

Author: By Katherine C. Mayer, | Title: Students Urge Grape Boycott | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

...longer maturities in car loans, for example, helped prolong and deepen the expansion, so will shrinkage in the terms of credit -- whether they be in car loans or mortgages or corporate lending -- deepen the recession. I am not at all sure this is going to be a Grapes of Wrath. At least, I hope not. But I think by the time it is all over, people will be refusing to make good loans, just as they had been overzealous in making bad ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with JAMES GRANT: Beware The Day Of the Bear | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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