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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country premised on a paradox. It is an avowedly secular state established to promote Jewish national life, to turn the Jews, in other words, into an autonomous people like the French or the Germans. At the same time it is a Jewish state which takes as its charter the preservation and propagation of a distinctively Jewish history and heritage. And therein lies the problem...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: A Tale Of Two Israels | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

...world order actually resembles the order as it stood at the end of World War II, when the U.S. was the sole possessor of atomic weapons and the U.N. Charter was being written. All the peace-loving countries would band together, the theory went, with the five permanent members of the Security Council in the lead. They would punish any nation that dared launch an aggressive war. That scenario was played out in Korea, but never thereafter until the Gulf War, which followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICA: WHAT PRICE GLORY? | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Assistant Secretary of Education under George Bush, is worried that these temporary setbacks will sour people on the idea of contracting private companies to run public schools. In fact, says Ravitch, schools need "an arsenal of approaches" to blast away at the public education crisis, including magnet and charter schools. "You can't tell kids in poor schools to hang on and five years from now the school will turn around," says Ravitch. "Their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIVATIZED LIVES | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June 21 as a plenary session in the city's Opera House received a motion to sign the charter: "Nobody spoke. Somebody said, 'Let's vote.' So we did. The chairmen began to stand, and we suddenly realized that everybody was standing, and we broke into applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.N. AT 50: WHO NEEDS IT? | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

Veliz called off the protest when the President backed off and agreed to set up a special commission that will include Galapaguenos in negotiations on a new charter for the islands. But he made it clear that if the situation does not improve, more disruptions could follow. Conservationists acknowledge that islanders need to make a living. They fear, however, that increased local autonomy will in the end benefit the human population at the expense of animals and plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN THE GALAPAGOS SURVIVE? | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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