Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Class of 2003 signed on to attend the top-ranked school in the country. Now, according to America's best-known college ranking system, they're going to number...
...past, America's East Timor policy has been nothing to be proud of; President Ford tacitly condoned the 1975 invasion and succeeding administrations have pumped Indonesia with military aid in the years since. But thus far in the current crisis, the Clinton administration has done a good job prodding Indonesia along the road to peace in East Timor. Pressure from the U.S., Indonesia's second-largest trading partner after Japan, helped convince Habibie to agree to a referendum in the first place and to permit peacekeepers. It may again prove invaluable as the specifics of the UN mission are worked...
...nation can abolish monarchy, as America did with zest in 1776. But it cannot so easily abolish the dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races for election year 2000. The top two Republican candidates are the son of a former President and the wife of the party's last presidential candidate (joined at the top by the son of a famous plutocrat...
...find out why. It will be a black stain on the entire human race if we allow a man to slaughter uncounted men, women and children, literally setting the development of a country back centuries, and find no reason for it. All the world shares in that blame, America more than most. JESSE PAUL NELSON Tucson, Ariz...
...successfully juggling work and family roles and have your priorities in place. But what do your kids think? A new book by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute looks at how kids assess their parents' efforts to have it all. The book, Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents, which comes out next month, shows that children keenly feel their parents' level of satisfaction or discontent in balancing work and family and reflect it in their own attitudes...