Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of Saturday's game the significance of Matt Johnson's effort went largely unnoticed. The week before, everyone gushed over Robb Hirsch's hard-fought 99-yard game. On Saturday, nobody cloaked in Crimson felt much like gushing...
Since its peak two decades ago, the women's movement has spawned subgroups whose diverse interests range from pushing day care to combating pornography. In some ways, feminist politics have expanded too much to keep women under one tent. In the Thomas-Hill aftermath, feminists took their energy in different directions: Geraldine Jensen, who heads a Toledo-based organization that seeks to strengthen child-support laws, says she plans to use the recent performance of the Senate Judiciary Committee to illustrate to her supporters why tough enforcement legislation has failed. "Now people will understand me when I say that these...
...importance of the Thomas hearings may have been more in the area of race than that of sex. The issue of sexual harassment came to no resolution there, so the aftermath on that score remains full of glaring anger. But the Thomas proceedings had an unexpected cleansing power where race is concerned. The antagonists were black. The drama was universal. The crime of racism is to deny the humanity of people with skin of a different color. Tolerance arises from a recognition of oneself in others, from seeing in a separate being all one's own possibilities, weaknesses, appetites, loves...
Thus ended a Wanderjahr in which Wolf fled through central Europe to the Soviet Union shortly before unification, then trekked backward because his continued sanctuary in Moscow seemed risky in the aftermath of the failed August coup. In Austria, his last stop before turning himself in, Wolf appeared to be teasing Bonn with impunity for three weeks. He applied for political asylum, counting on the international legal practice prohibiting extradition of individuals to countries where they are wanted for political crimes...
Wolf fled to the Soviet Union shortly before German unification last October. In the aftermath of the failed Soviet coup, he apparently feared that the reformers now in power in Moscow would hand him over to Germany. Though Austria is expected to deny Wolf's appeal, it cannot deport him to his homeland; international law protects him against extradition for political crimes. So where will he go? The Soviet Union, which has already antagonized Germany by harboring former East German leader Erich Honecker, is unlikely to want him back. Wolf says his own choice would be Germany. But coming...