Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write the law for their own purposes instead of interpreting it justly. As evidence, Ashcroft lambasted White for having voted 14 times to reverse a death penalty decision, proving that he was a protector of the guilty and against law and order. One Ashcroft fundraiser resigned in protest of the "marathon public crucifixion and misinformation campaign...
...architects of Iranian detente with the West. In 1998, ignoring the howls of the hard-liners, Abdi traveled to Paris and met with former hostage Barry Rosen, achieving a reconciliation of sorts. A sign of Abdi's influence: last summer's student riots began with a protest against the closing of his newspaper, Salam, by conservative-controlled courts...
...response to a torrent of protest from reporters and editors, publisher Kathryn Downing, 46, who stepped into the job last June, made an extraordinary--some called it "abject"--apology. After taking questions at a two-hour staff meeting on Oct. 28, she admitted that she and her staff had failed to understand the ethics involved. "It was the angriest, most confrontational meeting I've ever seen at the paper in my 31 years," says David Shaw, the paper's media reporter. "People felt betrayed, embarrassed, ashamed, angry. What happened was wrong. It's Journalism 101." Shaw will get to draw...
...21st century. Which means more and more people can expect to hear the antifat refrains that I've become so familiar with: "You won't live as long," "Your quality of life will be diminished," "Society will reject you," "You won't be able to keep up in the protest marches." (That was just in my family.) Let's take these one at a time...
...writing to protest Hugh Liebert's column ("The American Invasion," Oct. 26), where he laments the way American Top 40 music has corrupted global culture. Indeed, Top 40 music is often idiotic and profoundly uninteresting; however, Liebert makes the mistake of conflating Top 40 with rock music in general. Top-40 is produced and promoted by a few profit-seeking major record labels like RCA, Columbia, and Warner Brothers, which release same-sounding music in hopes of discovering the next big hit. This "rock star" approach is deeply at odds with a more vital function of rock music, that...