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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scariest right-wing organizations in the world today. Counter-protesting at their demonstrations, however, invites confrontation. That's what the Operation Rescue people want--confrontation invites media attention. News coverage opens a free forum for pro-lifers to try to scare women from having abortions and to preach to anyone watching the news that abortion is immoral...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Protesting for Privacy | 11/14/1992 | See Source »

...doubt you were thinking on that plane. The academic obsession with you in general seems to be doing your thinking for you. In fact, when you first started staking out the cultural fringe, you dismissed any idea of a higher social agenda. We were told that "Papa Don't Preach" was "Just a song." And "Open Your Heart" was "just a video." Now we are supposed to believe that you have transformed yourself into an icon of social tolerance, a lighthouse, as it were, for the culturally disenfranchised...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

...student on his "slip," but I could not really blame him for his attitude. In our culture there is widespread hypocrisy regarding alcohol vis-a-vis other drugs. This hypocrisy allows parents to talk about ridding neighborhoods of drugs while enjoying a cold brew and the White House to preach 'Just Say No' while serving wines and champagnes at state dinners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcohol Is a Drug, Too | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...least 20%, or $100 million a week. Lopez, 51, a veteran of GM Europe, has become known as "the Grand Inquisitor." In only four months, he has rankled many of GM's leading suppliers by reopening existing contracts and dispatching his teams of subordinates through supplier factories to preach productivity in one-week workshops. Lopez says he has already transformed more than 100 of GM's 2,500 suppliers, boosting their productivity an average 63%. He approaches his job with messianic zeal. "I like my wife," he proclaims, "but I love GM. We must love our company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in GM's Driver's Seat? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...just shows that Harvard isn't committed to the type of diversity that they preach to the students that come in, the students who are applying," says Efrain Cortes '93, president of La O. "It is a very important issue to the Latino community at Harvard...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Students Force the University To Reevaluate It's Position On Ethnic Studies. | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

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