Word: brokenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...August 8, the 2008 Olympic Games will open in Beijing. The eyes of the world will be upon China, as tourists and television viewers from every country tune in. Hundreds of world leaders, including President Bush, will be in attendance. Medals will be won, records will be broken, and nations will rally around their Olympic heroes. But for democracies worldwide, it will be a moment of shame. By attending the Olympics, they will be tacitly endorsing China’s autocratic government, abuse of its own people, and its unsavory alliances. The United States should take a stand against China?...
...pesticide alternatives. Similary, my friend and Saskatoon host, Ellen Quigley ’07, is the principal organizer of a festival focused on persuading individuals to make collective commitments to reducing their environmental impact. According to Jensen, such projects are fruitless “tweaks” to a broken system...
...released results for 131 out of the parliament's 210 seats. According to that preliminary count, Mugabe's Zanu-PF won 64 seats, while the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a total of 67. But five of those opposition seats went to a splinter faction that has broken off from the MDC and its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe's main rival...
...which had dominated them from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Back at the close of the Cold War in the early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe, NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site of Kievan Rus, the original state from which both Russia and Ukraine sprang. Russian historians...
Thirty minutes after wrangling over how ties would be broken, Stephan decided to call for the vote; while all 16 Obama delegates opted to go forward, the 9 Clinton delegates preferring to prolong the debate. It was clear that drawing out the process was a strategic move by the Clintonites, a tactic seen elsewhere around the state that day, as delays caused some delegates to give up and go home. A few delegates were seen leaving the expo center in mid-afternoon, but the 16 Obama backers in Precinct 110 said they would not leave until the results were turned...