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...British Parliament granted voting rights to women less than a week after the death of Emmeline Pankhurst, the standard-bearer of the most militant wing of England's women's suffrage movement. The ironic timing of Pankhurst's death underscores her relentless struggle for women's voting rights--a goal which continued to elude...
...Stein, "In today's world, if you can look about you and see that things are pretty good, you're not fit to be an editorial writer for the New York Times, my son." Standing a cliché on its head, Stein announced: "Today it is the bearer of good news who is in danger." Duck, Mr. Stein...
That is, perhaps the only way to interpret the emblems of democracy. Despite the radical and rightist cant, the American symbols contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave...
...connection with the paper had been tenuous, at best--he never made much of his membership on the Business Board--Crimson editors felt a sentimental attachment to him. In comparison with the other candidates before the Convention in Los Angeles, and in stark contrast to the Republican standard bearer, the young Massachusetts Senator and Overseer seemed the only logical choice. As we see in its endorsement editorial, The Crimson made its choice for President perfectly clear in the Fall of 1960. The campaign coverage was extensive, ranging from peripatetic coverage of the candidates on tour to parodies of the Kennedy...
...dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...