Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangers are especially frightening for thousands of alien residents. Last autumn, militant Islamists threatened death to all foreigners who did not quit the country. "The terrorists play on people's nerves until they crack up and leave," says a member of the dwindling French community. Raymond Louzoum, who was married to a Muslim and had applied for Algerian nationality, did not want to go and so became the 27th victim. "He fitted my first pair of glasses when I was four years old," said a young woman who works in an office opposite the optician's shop, choking back tears...
They already make up disproportionately large shares of university classes, a development that has stuck a bamboo pole into the affirmative-action machinery. Fully 41% of the entering freshman class at UCLA this autumn consists of students of Asian descent. At Berkeley they total 33.6% of enrollments, which has prompted calls for an admissions policy limiting their numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their...
...autumn of 1998. Hungary's democratic government, outraged at the treatment of 1.8 million ethnic Hungarians in neighboring Romania, threatens to take back the region of Transylvania by force. Bulgaria backs Romania. Farther north, Ukraine's government is shaken by an ultimatum from Moscow: Hand over all nuclear weapons or face a pre-emptive strike. Hungary and Ukraine turn immediately to their NATO allies for support...
Harvard-Epworth Film Series. YasujiroOzu's "An Autumn Afternoon," at 8 p.m.Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 MassAve...
Besieged by hard-line rebels, Russia survives its bloodiest autumn since World War II -- barely...