Word: assignations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl of rosy-cheeked innocence, is among the millions of "Educated Youth" sent to the countryside of China for manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. After inspecting her good behavior, the unit authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate...
...point is not to assign blame or point fingers. But when hotshot Ivy-leaguers vie for higher office the moment they have graduated from college (apparently there are several students already angling for my state representative's seat), you have to wonder: If they win, will they be able to address their constituency's needs? Of politicking they know much, but of their people, they will know little...
...issue was what is called "geographicassigning," where departments assign specificofficers to regularly patrol specificneighborhoods for extended periods of time, in thestyle of cops walking their beats...
When it had to assign some residents to theJordan overflow facility, Graham says his hope wasnot to force students to live there. Rather, theHouse solicited students and found several whowere willing to live there voluntarily, mitigatingthe issue to some extent...
...peace in Congo slips out of reach, leaders like Mugabe and Museveni find the stability of their regimes wrapped up in Congo's war. The real fear is that the fight inside Congo will become a fight for Congo, a struggle to carve up the nation and assign new borders. Explains Johan Peleman, director of the Belgian-based International Peace Information Service: "The longer the war lasts, the more politically and economically involved the players become in the territory they are occupying." A year ago, that involvement was a hopeful guarantee of peace. Now it seems to be taking Africa...