Word: statement
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...okay for Cathy Freeman to be an Aboriginal because she wins, why is it not OK for someone else to be an Aboriginal when he says, 'This is my land,' or 'My children are dying too young' or 'My children are dying in jail.' Cathy, by having made a statement before the Games about the present government's niggardly attention to Aborigines, did something very dramatic with her race. She put Aborigines where they ought to be, at the center, the first agenda item, not on the margin where Johnny Howard wants them. I think she is capable of great...
...offensive line made its blocks all day," Palazzo said. "The wide receivers, fullbacks, it was a real team effort to run the ball today. We had to run the ball, to make a statement that...
Rarely has such a statement been more applicable than to yesterday's men's soccer match, in which sound tactics, hustle and shear will elevated Harvard to a 1-0 victory over the Boston College Eagles (5-3, 4-1 Big East...
...Saro-Wiwa into one of the most prominent environmental and civil rights martyrs of the decade: he was looked upon as a moral giant who fought and lost to an abusive, undemocratic regime and the greedy, unaccountable spectre of one of the world's largest oil companies. His final statement to those about to hang him reflected the dignity and disgust that one would expect from a modern day martyr: "Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land…I have devoted… my very life, to a cause in which...
...general consensus was that we support the open use of computing," Mitby said of the group. "Not everyone who uses Napster uses it illegally." HCS drafted a position statement two weeks ago opposing any proposal that would block access to Napster...