Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobby in the United States, and the Harvard Students for Israel co-sponsored the leadership-training seminar at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
AIPAC is one of the most influential lobbies in Washington, second only to the American Association of Retired People, AIPAC Northeast Field Organizer Rachel Murov said. The 55,000-member organization is bipartisan and does not directly fund political campaigns...
...that they have more capacity for crazy music. Also, it's great that America has so much college radio. I grew up in Japan, they don't have that, it's about the mainstream. College radio always finds out the new music that plays, that's the source of American music for the future...
...Washington won't be particularly surprised at coming under fire in Islamabad, which has long been considered one of the most vulnerable U.S. diplomatic outposts; in fact, most American diplomatic personnel were evacuated from the country as a precaution before last year's cruise missile strikes on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps. But the incident is a major challenge to the authority of General Parvez Musharraf, who has done his best to assure the West that his coup will stabilize Pakistan. Foreign observers had been uncertain of how Musharraf planned to deal with the country's fundamentalist movement and with...
...about the role of religion in public schools comes a nice bit of middle-of-the road common sense: Teach, but don't preach. "The Bible and Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide," unveiled Thursday by a coalition of 20 normally at-odds groups (such as People for the American Way and the National Bible Association), is a how-to book for schools who want to teach about the Bible without teaching the Bible. TIME senior religion writer David Van Biema calls the move "a terrific thing," saying that it could lead to a greatly increased understanding...