Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Lewis was enjoying Midwestern dining, Knowles was returning from a post-Commencement tour of Asia...
...20th century. Many Asian nations have come into their own in the past 100 years. This makes it our century, too, a period when we have fought for freedom and gained our independence. This century should stand as the one in which new independent nations were born in Asia. JEWELLYN DIZON Makati City, the Philippines...
...book has been controversial, not because Mahbubani offers a particularly lurid answer to the title question--actually, he equivocates--but because of his belief that Asia is destined for greater world power, at American expense. Critics have called him anti-Western, but Mahbubani's argument is really with Western arrogance, with leaders who insist capitalism and democracy are the answer for all nations. In fact, he says, the West's hubris is accelerating its decline and polluting relations with proud, ambitious nations such as China and Japan...
...long history of suffering. Originally from Northern India, the Gypsies ? or Roma people ? were nomadic tribesmen skilled in crafts and music who were scattered westward more than a thousand years ago by successive waves of war and occupation. Passing through the Persian, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, they settled throughout Asia Minor, the Arab world, the Balkans and Europe but maintained common threads of language, culture, music and religious belief throughout their diaspora. But rarely have their host countries made them feel welcome. They were legally able to be enslaved in Europe until the mid-19th century, and the hostility they...
That's the dicey part. Economic turmoil could resurface for any number of reasons. Rising interest rates in the U.S. could slow American demand for goods produced in emerging nations, stifling the recovery. And Asia could collapse again on its own, perhaps misreading this year's higher stock prices as a sign of economic health when the buoyant markets really are just the result of bargain hunting by a lot of speculators. Already there is evidence that Thailand, the first Asian domino to fall two years ago, is ready to declare victory and backpedal on key promised banking and other...