Word: support
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Americans still support the death penalty, but not with the ferocity they felt when it was an abstraction, or when softheaded judges were letting murderers walk on a technicality. Movies like The Hurricane and Dead Man Walking, as well as last week's episode of The West Wing, show the awful drama behind the practice...
...must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians. That realization is what had Reza Khatami dashing along Tehran's clogged streets to meet the voters. At Tehran's Shariati Cultural Center, singing and clapping students cheered when he declared, "With the support of the youth, we shall all build the future of this country!" An hour's drive away at the mosque in Shahr-ray, he addressed a subdued throng of working-class men, reassuring them that the reform movement is inspired by Ayatullah Khomeini. Inside the mosque, neighborhood elders nodded with...
...promote a "destructive lifestyle" are pressing administrators to find ways to shut it down, and the school district continues to argue in court against the alliance's right to meet. Meanwhile, El Modena has become a culture-war magnet: anti-alliance protesters have driven in from Utah to show support even as civil rights activists rally around the alliance...
...fighting hasn't helped anyone. In Minnesota the Reform antics have been a distraction for a Governor with an ambitious agenda and evanescent support in the statehouse. Nationally the party has been fractured, with members going to court over such issues as whether to hold the national convention in Long Beach, Calif., or St. Paul...
...Methodist congregation. He apparently underwent a denominational transformation after a spiritual encounter with Billy Graham, an evangelist preacher whose vision of Hell is a world in which he does not get to play golf with the President. It's unclear whether Steve Forbes will continue his financial support of an effort to persuade members of his own congregation to abandon Planned Parenthood and blockade an abortion clinic with their foxhounds...