Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peacekeeping record is a point of contention in the the UN's efficacy as an institution. If peacekeeping forces are not supposed to use violence, how can they effectively keep the peace and credibly deter future violence within areas of civil conflict? But perhaps our own conceptions of peacekeeping must evolve before we evaluate a given operation's success...
...tupperware container, ditches her seven kids and takes off to Hollywood to become a TV star. It's a typical theme for a movie: carpe diem, no matter who you kill or how many lives you ruin. But set the plot during the turbulent time period of the '60s Civil Rights Movement, and the scope of the film becomes much wider and far more serious than its trailer suggests...
Adapted from Mark Childress' 1993 critically-acclaimed novel of the same name, Crazy in Alabama is at times brilliantly poignant in its portrayal of the fight for civil rights and at other times utterly inane when it comes to any scene that involves its main character, Lucille (Melanie Griffith). Its paradoxical blend of intense drama and absurd comedy accomplishes the daunting task of uniting two seemingly disparate storylines by a common cause: the fight for freedom, whether from an entire society or a controlling spouse. Crazy in Alabama juxtaposes the fallout of two murders in a small Alabama town...
...easy to see how peaceful Muslims might fear the dissemination of unflattering stereotypes. And, they have every right to guard against the development of a paranoia that might lead to an infringement on their civil liberties. However, Emerson is no bigot, nor is he a firebrand seeking to incite a panic. He is a talented journalist working to shed light on a threat all too well understood by women living under the Talisban regime in Afghanistan, by Israeli shopkeepers, schoolchildren and commuters, and--increasingly in the aftermath of the World Trade Center and African embassy bombings--by average American citizens...
...honors this year. It?s the two who got away who pose the problem for the Citadel ? both have filed discrimination suits. Messer?s was settled out of court last year, but on Tuesday a U.S. district judge in Columbia, S.C., announced that the academy could stand trial on civil rights charges...