Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's groups aligned against recognizing the Taliban. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared that "if the Taliban...wants international acceptance, they must treat women not as chattel but as people." There's no religious justification for the behavior: the 55-country Organization of the Islamic Conference refused to admit the Taliban. At the party, two of the few reporters who have been in the country, Christiane Amanpour, the Goddess of War Reporting, and Diane Sawyer, sent tapes about the virtual house arrest of the female population...
...just as many officials quietly admit that no one predicted Milosevic would be so ferocious so fast. The CIA knew as far back as last autumn that Belgrade was planning Operation Horseshoe: when spring melted the snows, the Serbs would move in their tanks and artillery to destroy the Kosovo Liberation Army and drive many ethnic Albanians over the southern and western borders. At a village a day--the rate Milosevic calculated the West would tolerate--Serbia could methodically eliminate the Kosovar population over a number of months. Analysts knew Milosevic would intensify his purge if bombing started. But they...
...first thing we need to do--at least privately--is to admit that what we've done was a mistake," Hannum said. "When acting on our universal sense of outrage and we make things worse, then we've done the wrong thing," he said...
...course [people who admit to raping another student] should be dismissed," she said. "It should just go through...
Anyone who watched Wrestlemania XV on Sunday would have had to admit that the Padres' prized poultry was in an uncharacteristically feisty mood that night...