Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argue that the United States should devote less financial and political capital to the UN is to shortsightedly confine the definition of American national interest to the present domestic agenda. While health care policy, campaign finance reform, social security surpluses and tax cuts deserve public discussion, we cheat ourselves if we believe that these issues are the only ones affecting America today. The true challenge for policy makers is not how to escape the entangling alliances of international institutions, but how to bring events in other parts of the world into the daily consciousness of the American people...
Continued political and financial support for the United Nations will come more easily from American politicians when Americans themselves are aware of the significance of international affairs in their daily life. Our first priority is therefore to integrate a more robust global perspective into our educational system at every level, beginning with the United Nations Week events on campus this week...
...Division, the Harvard tandem of senior All-American Lauren Toretta '00 and junior Alex Beale placed seventh out of 15 schools...
...would we be if we could have that time and energy back? My friends and I and, according to a statistic I've heard, the 90 percent of fifth grade girls who diet? I'm not saying we would've written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here...
...Hughes received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, given to historians of "the highest distinction." He was also commended by the Italian government for his work in Italian history...