Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of the Wye agreement, President Clinton committed the Central Intelligence Agency to monitoring Palestinian efforts to contain terrorism. Harvard professors offered varying takes on America's assumption of this responsibility...
Each morning, Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall takes a bus to work. As it winds along Mass. Ave. and through Central Square, Pearsall chats with the people he meets...
Likewise, the belief in human rights, so central to the authors' arguments, requires that the "struggle for true self-determination" proceed along lines which respect these basic human rights. From this point of view, self-determination requires a certain amount of careful self-monitoring, one might say "suppression," of the violent strains within such a movement. Once again, this sort of watchfulness must not be seen as a toilsome burden. As a nationalist movement fighting for statehood, the Palestinian Authority must accept both these responsibilities. It ought not to see these tasks in the onerous light which Bishara and Fahmawi...
...infection from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy in Central America, made hundreds of times worse by Mitch's murderous rains...
...feckless journalist has a dreadful movie script he's trying to push on his interviewees, and that leads to the film's central, most harrowing passage. For when he arrives to discuss it with Brandon Darrow (Leonardo DiCaprio, in a chilling performance), the star is exercising his power by beating up a girlfriend and trashing a hotel room. Undaunted, Lee starts pitching. And pitching--through a night of high-stakes gambling (he loses, of course), drugs and group sex. Slyly, sadistically, Brandon alternately encourages and discourages him. Degradation is power's prerogative. And besides, it amuses...