Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more than 45,000 people, including the mayor of St. Louis and the governor of Missouri, have already signed an electronic petition at SaveAB.com. "Like baseball, apple pie and ice-cold beer (wrapped in a red, white and blue label), Anheuser-Busch is an American original," the manifesto declares. (Tight-lipped A-B says it had nothing to do with the petition drive...
...Frankly, Harvard seems destined to a lofty place in the bourgeois cosmos, today re-established after decades of deviation from the path of the Boston Brahmin, all of us again participating in just the “naked self-interest” Marx inveighs against in his manifesto. No one expresses more than a tinge of voiceless, ‘moral’ disgust at the flagrant, moustache-twirling greed of those attending info session after Goldman Sachs info session; these shock troops of the global market get a free pass (except of course from the aging vigilantes...
...Jack does not know is that Jill’s liveliness spawns from her lack of time—she has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. As Jack and Jill take on the world in this “Sweet November” look-alike, they create their own manifesto, combining both Jill’s optimism and Jack’s pessimism. However, anger arises when Jill violates rule number one—be honest. While this predictable film may have a few cringe-worthy moments, director Vanessa Parise ’93 adds stylistic touches with her crafty...
Tsvangirai is short on specifics of how he would improve on Mugabe. The emphasis is on doing what the 84-year-old has not done. The opposition's manifesto promises "a sound economy, agriculture and livelihoods, a new constitution and good governance"; leadership on HIV/AIDS, which has infected 2.3 million people; and empowering the youth. In a softening of Mugabe's policy, white-owned farms would not be handed back to their former owners. Rather, the government would curb "corrupt and self-serving" land seizures while remaining committed to "systematic land reform that benefits the black people of Zimbabwe...
...Richard Garwin, a military expert at IBM's Watson Research Center, have prepared a petition of leading scientists opposing space weaponry. Sagan, who listened to Reagan's speech from a Syracuse hospital where he was recovering from an appendectomy, was so agitated that he pressed to have the manifesto completed for release this week. It concludes: "If space weapons are ever to be banned, this may be close to the last moment in which it can be done...