Word: amid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this last week I have gone--I am fairly sure--where few Harvard students have gone before--amid the tiny villages (some of which seem not even to have names), the winding one-lane roads and the vast green expanses of the Pyrenees in southwestern France...
...advocated "fighting terrorism as if there is no peace process and pursuing peace as if there is no terrorism," on the grounds that halting peace talks in response to terrorist attacks plays into Hamas?s hands. "Unlike Rabin, however, Barak agrees with Netanyahu that you can?t talk peace amid terror attacks," says Beyer. "Barak wants to maintain the incentive for Yasser Arafat to do his utmost to curb Hamas." But even Israel?s more muscular security services haven?t managed to completely eliminate the Hamas threat. Clinton plans to meet with Barak every four months to review progress...
...Venice's Grand Canal. Hamilton, 43, is this year's star-power artist officially representing the U.S. at the 48th Venice Biennale, the oldest of the international art expositions. With 59 countries participating and more than 100 artists on view through Nov. 7, there is, as ever, notable work amid a great deal of minor junk. At the opening, Hamilton's minimalist installation--four rooms that appear empty but for a shower of madly pink dust collecting on their sun-drenched floors--drew crowds and the chatter of outrage, deflation and praise...
...hurly-burly of the Biennale, Hamilton's meditative rooms are like church pews amid the roar of Grand Central Terminal. The opening crowds jostled inside the pavilion, drowning the whispering voice, wrecking the peaceful atmosphere. How could divinity alight at rush hour...
...Chinese, rather than Iranian, history ? the brutal clearing of Tiananmen Square 10 years ago. Demonstrations against a crackdown on liberal newspapers began last week, but they escalated after an attack by police and hard-line militants on Thursday night killed one student and injured four. The latest clashes come amid a fierce battle for Iran?s future that pits reformers led by President Mohamed Khatami against Iran's conservative clergy, led by Ayatollah Ali Khameini, which retains ultimate power over the country's government and electoral system. President Khatami, who was elected in 1997 in a landslide denunciation by voters...