Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government department, one of whose voting members in Thompson. Berkowitz explained his actions in Nesson's class as follows. Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, suggested Berkowitz review the Thompson book after a prior Berkowitz review explored issues surrounding Alexis de Tocqueville, religion and civil society. Berkowitz had two (soundly politic) qualms--that Thompson is a colleague and that his own tenure review process was underway. After calling Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies and owner of The New Republic, for advice, Berkowitz came to the conclusion that one, he had not even spoken with Thompson...
...older generation of Kennedys died fighting for the great causes of the century: Joe Kennedy Jr. went down over the English Channel, fighting Hitler. His brothers John and Robert were assassinated in the midst of crusades--against communism, for civil rights--that they were prepared to die for. This younger branch of the family has always sailed smaller boats in higher winds. As a teenager, Michael jumped off a 75-ft. cliff above the Snake River in Wyoming during a rafting trip. Brother Robert, while at Harvard, leaped 10 feet between two six-story dorms on a dare...
Edward Treanor, a 31-year-old civil servant, was enjoying a New Year's Eve drink with his new girlfriend at her pub, the Clifton Tavern in Catholic North Belfast. At 9:07 p.m. two masked men, one armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
...tech stocks." What's spoiling the mood? Asia. For a few days this week, Asia was looking up. South Korea was leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest and even a military coup, is worse because it sparks the imagination. "Having that on their minds, with the dread of next week," says Schwartz, "there was a rush Friday to get some profits out before it all comes down...
...weekend, will be the first of its kind. It is designed to provide an opportunity for students to discuss pertinent Chinese-American topics from the involvement of Asian-Americans in the national campaign finance scandal to the recent appointment of Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general for civil rights...