Word: reforms
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Amid a sea of red and blue signs, Gore pledged to fight for civil rights, health care reform and environmental protection and charged that his Republican opponents would turn back the clock...
...million plan would ensure near-universal and affordable coverage. Although Bradley has yet to address specific funding issues, he is the only presidential candidate firmly committed to the plausible ideal of universal health coverage. Beyond health care, Bradley has not wavered from his promise of campaign finance reform and has had a relatively clean record when it comes to fundraising. In education, he has vowed to forgive loans for students who earn teaching certification and plan to work in poor schools. This is a promising way of addressing the current teacher shortage and indicates that Bradley is in tune with...
...courageously condemned the leaders of the religious right and their pernicious influence, particularly in the form of religious litmus tests. Although we are far from comfortable with many McCain's socially conservative positions--such as his stances on abortion and gun control--McCain's commitment to campaign finance reform and willingness to depart from party leadership throws a certain weight behind his self-proclaimed status as a reformer...
...complicit in what has happened," says Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Michael Mitchell. "The supervisors are afraid they won't be able to put a lid on it." But with the public clamoring for answers--and the FBI involved--it may be difficult to fight off the tide of reform...
...mobbed like one nearly everywhere he goes these days. When Iran's No. 1 muckraking journalist attended a lecture at Tehran University last month, students whistled and chanted his name until he went onstage and gave a speech. At an election rally featuring the country's most popular reform politicians, it was Ganji who brought down the house. "Ganji! Ganji!" the crowd roared when he arrived. Once a functionary in the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Ganji, 40, is now calling Iran's Islamic authorities to account in a way no other Iranian journalist has ever...