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NEWS ABOUT: radical

radical stories: 10 news summaries
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 The Twilight of Students' 
 Radical Reading 

What happened to Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg?

Mar 8, 09 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A few decades ago, college kids turned to radicals to satisfy their literary thirst, but on today’s campuses, “you're more likely to hear a werewolf howl than Allen Ginsberg,” writes Ron Charles in the Washington Post. Other than Barack Obama’s tomes, the bestselling books among college... More »

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literature • college • radical • student • student activism • campus • Twilight

(Newser) - Seven French politicians, including President Nicolas Sarkozy, have received death threats accompanied by live ammunition, the Independent reports. The letters, which included 9mm rounds, were signed by an unknown group called Solidarity Earth. Though the name perhaps suggests an environmental group, and anti-terrorism officials are investigating, those in the know... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • death threats • radical • Michele Alliot Marie • eco-terrorism • ammunition • Rachida Dati • leftist

Unrepentant Ayers: I Was 'Demonized'

Campaign piñata says of his radical past:
We didn't do enough

Nov 14, 08 8:56 AM CST
(Newser) - William Ayers broke his silence this morning on Good Morning America, and he was anything but repentant. The former ‘60s radical called the attacks on him “a profoundly dishonest narrative” designed to “demonize” him, ABC reports. But he didn’t apologize for controversial deeds by him or... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • hippies • interview • Bill Ayers

OPINION

 Is Obama a Radical 
 or Reconciler? 

Or Niebuhrian waffler?

Oct 22, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be on the brink of the presidency, but many still wonder whether he’s a closet radical, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post. He carries a liberal Illinois legislature record, associations with Ayers, Alinsky, Wright, and ACORN, and an “elitist disdain for bitter, God-clinging conservatives,... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • Obama 2008 • Jeremiah Wright • Election 2008 • moderate • Bill Ayers

OPINION

McCain Had a '60s Radical Friend of His Own

Made friends with ex-Vietnam protestor

Oct 18, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain has been busily exploiting and distorting Barack Obama’s passing relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers, but McCain himself had a much closer relationship with another '60s radical, David Ifshin, writes Joe Klein of Time. Ifshin was an anti-Vietnam radical whom many people accused of treason after he... More »

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John McCain • Vietnam • radical • negative campaigning • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

How Obama Crossed Paths With a Radical '60s Bomber

Candidate's links with ex-Weatherman probed

Oct 4, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Ayers' past as a bomb-planting '60s radical has been largely forgiven in Chicago—even the mayor says, “He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally”—but it keeps popping up to haunt Barack Obama, the New York Times reports. The pair live in... More »

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Barack Obama • radical • anti war movement • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

 Brit Cafe Bomber
 'Preyed On
 by Extremists' 

Radicals took advantage of mentally ill Islamic convert: cops

May 23, 08 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - British police believe a mentally ill man who tried to blow himself up in a restaurant yesterday was taken advantage of by Islamic extremists, the Guardian reports. The recent convert to Islam walked into a busy restaurant in the West Country city of Exeter and exploded a device. The only... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • England • Islamic extremists • bomb • radical

Clashes in Lebanon Kill 39

May 20, 07 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gunbattle between the Lebanese army and al-Qaeda-linked militants in Tripoli  today left 22 soldiers and 17 insurgents dead, the AP reports. The fighting—the worst in the city in two decades— began when police raided an apartment occupied by militants. The army later shelled a Palestinian refugee camp which... More »

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military • Lebanon • Syria • insurgents • radical • Tripoli • Fatah Islam • al-Qaeda

Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled

May 8, 07 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six alleged terrorists are under arrest after plotting an attack against New Jersey's Fort Dix Army Base. The men, Islamic radicals from Albania and the former Yugoslavia, had hatched a deadly (if decidedly low-tech) plan: storm the base with automatic weapons and execute as many soldiers as possible. More »

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terrorism • terror plots • radical • Fort Dix • Dover Air Force Base • Fort Monmouth • Islamic radicals

Million Turks Rally for Secularism

Apr 30, 07 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Secular Turks staged an enormous rally yesterday amid a constitutional crisis over the election of the next president, the BBC reports. As many as a million protesters turned out in Istanbul to oppose ruling-party candidate Abdullah Gul, who they're afraid is orchestrating an Islamic coup in the country even as... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Middle East • politics • European Union • Abdullah Gul • protests • modernization • rally • radical • secularism • Istanbul • election

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