Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flawed electoral process. At the time, I found her view frustratingly staid, the stance of someone who had lost touch with young people's immediate concerns. I felt that boycotting elections made a prize of abstract ideals over daily realities. I had experienced Iran in both the repressive late 1990s and the relatively more open years of reformist President Mohammed Khatami, and not choosing a more open government - however imperfect the process of choice - seemed inconceivable...
Though there is little talk of the war in Sarajevo today, religious leaders trace Bosnia's Islamic revival directly to the horrors people witnessed in the 1990s, when they were children. "This generation grew up overnight," says the country's Grand Mufti, Mustafa Efendi Ceric. "We had an entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four...
...netted a cache of antitank mines in Rustempasic's family house, and imprisoned him for two months; Rustempasic and three others were arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities, but they were released due to a lack of evidence. Rustempasic says the weaponry was wartime trash from the 1990s, and claims he is being hounded for his Salafi beliefs. Still, his talk is disquieting. "There is a religious thought that Muslims are one body," he says. "As far as I know no Bosnian has been captured in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is always within the domain of possibilities...
...found stocks winning by a mile for almost every 30-year period over those two centuries, became a must-read for investors. Siegel--a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School--became what one journalist described as "the intellectual godfather of the 1990s bull market...
...froze" the settlements in 2003 but has surreptitiously supported building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size to account for myriad new thrusts into, twists around and enclosures...