During my tenure, I once heard a tough-talking activist suggesting that government functionaries should be mandated to swear with our local deities such as Ifa, Ogun, Sango, Amadioha or Udo, so as to stamp out corruption.
THEN LAST MARCH, Rashid got a text message on her phone from Maher, the 28-year-old engineer and activist, suggesting that young Egyptians should do something to support the workers in Mahalla al-Kobra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.
When an animal-rights activist suggested that the photogenic cub should be euthanized, Knut became a cause célèbre overnight.
Christopher Soghoian, a privacy activist, suggests that consumers could start a "fair data" movement, in the vein of "fair trade" campaigns.
I am a great admirer of Ronald Reagan, but to suggest that he replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, as Grover Norquist, the conservative activist, suggests, is just ridiculous.
Perhaps as Tom Hayden, the 1960s activist, suggested, the "price of some success is that the voluntary activist groups can feel less needed". Could older Americans just be complacent?
WEB Du Bois, the African-American writer and activist, suggested in 1903 that "the problem of the colour-line" would dominate American political life for the coming century.
One influential activist suggested Washington wanted to recreate its success in forming a friendly government in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion.
In a recent talk show on German television, one veteran housing activist suggested the senate should offer no more than €1 in compensation payments.
Bruce Fein, the Republican legal activist, suggests that, in Addington's view, the President could kill someone in a public park if he deemed the person to be an enemy combatant.
After my Yahoo column was published, several readers, tired of hearing me describe Mr. Icahn as a shareholder activist, suggested that I look into Mr. Icahn's financial machinations at XO.
