Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comforting figure," observes Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar and former administrator of the Society of Biblical Literature. "He's a troublemaker." Marcus Borg of Oregon State University concurs that this "subversive sage" was, like Socrates, out "to undermine the safe assumptions of conventional wisdom." That he chose to break bread with the lepers and outcasts of his day was a remarkable rejection of established Jewish mores, says Borg. Such scholars perceive a worldly revolutionary at work in the man who insisted, "The last will be first...
...severed in 1980. "Let them ((U.S. officials)) take a nonhostile pose by releasing our assets," said Rafsanjani. "If so, we will use our influence in Lebanon." Reagan Administration officials quickly ruled out the possibility of any deal that had the appearance of an Iran-contra- style ransom. Reagan nonetheless chose to view the comment optimistically, saying, "If they're willing and ready to talk, it's time...
...hope that the surprise resignation of Burma's military overlord, Ne Win, 78, would lead to reform was quickly extinguished last week. Three days after Ne Win stepped down, the Socialist Program Party, Burma's sole legal political body, chose his protege, Sein Lwin, 64, as its new leader; the next day parliament named him the country's President. A retired army general, Sein Lwin is the longtime head of the dread riot police, the Lon Htein, and one of Burma's most feared men. He lived up to his nickname "the Butcher" when he ruthlessly suppressed student riots earlier...
...York Times Magazine many months ago chronicled an investigation by New York City police into a drug-related murder. The suspects involved were relatively young, and the detectives emphasized that the reason for the kids' involvement stemmed from the tremendous amounts of money available to those who chose to enter the drug trade...
...everywhere in the Middle East. In Egypt, which has sold more than $1 billion in armaments to Iraq in the course of the war, President Hosni Mubarak cautiously expressed hope that "this is not some kind of maneuver." Syria, which because of a long history of rivalry with Iraq chose to back Iran, professed to welcome the "wise decision of the Iranian leadership...