Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heels of the civil rights movement ofthe '60s, many black students were attempting tocreate an identity within the class...
Londonderry was where the Troubles started more than 30 years ago, when a nascent Catholic civil rights movement decided to take on the Protestant establishment, which had dominated the politics of the city for centuries. Demonstrations degenerated into pitched battles between the armed gangs of the Irish Republican Army and the British army. In 1972, 13 civilians were killed by British paratroopers on "Bloody Sunday," one of the defining events of the Troubles. The bombers and terrorists retaliated, transforming large tracts of the city into blackened shells...
This guidance could be startlingly specific. Last summer the DOJ issued a series of subpoena-like civil investigative demands to nearly a dozen Microsoft customers, requesting information and documents, including e-mail, sales data and meeting notes. The narrowly written requests, carefully shaped by Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn...
...Other Ones, a new band featuring members of the Grateful Dead), probably no one has taken a longer, harder route to a city near you than Maryam Mursal. She fled Mogadishu, Somalia, with her five young children in 1991 at the height of her native country's bloody civil war. Bribing and buying her way through Kenya and into Ethiopia, she eventually journeyed to Denmark, where she resumed her career as a singer...
...Wars" [WORLD, May 11], most Jewish Israelis feel and act as a single people, a family united by its religious heritage, whether its members choose to observe its rules to a greater or lesser degree. The populace in Israel is not polarized, nor on the brink of a religious civil war. RABBI AVI SHAFRAN New York City