Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raise the value of Saatchi's collection. It then filed suit to throw the museum--one of the finest in the country--out of the gracious city-owned building that has been its home for more than 100 years. Supporters rallied to each side, and both the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Catholic League organized pickets...
Because of the welfare state, poor Americans were created and then had their ethics eroded by reliance on their undeserved biweekly government checks. We changed civil rights laws, enabling black people to catch up in the race race, but they stubbornly refused, choosing instead to remain in ghettos and speak their strange pidgin dialects...
Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, their extended family has begun to reassemble its life after the region's civil strife...
...squares with neither history nor Orwell's vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin? The IMF? It's not clear. But surely the implication--that the masses' self-rule was a foolish aberration--is not one the author, who nearly died fighting for democracy in the Spanish Civil War, would have considered a feel-good send...
...just finished reading "War Wounds," and am appalled by the maiming of these two innocent civilians in the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone [WORLD, Sept. 13]. As a young boy from India, I lived in Nigeria, where my father was a school principal in the early '80s. Nigeria and Sierra Leone were such peaceful countries, and their citizens were so lovely in nature--happy, God-fearing people with a smile and a greeting for everyone. What has happened to this continent? It has lost all its civility and is leaving behind a trail of brutality and sadness everywhere...