Word: civilizations
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...call rang out through Washington early on the morning of March 2: the biggest act of civil disobedience against global warming in American history would not, in fact, be snowed...
...Besides curbing bad behavior, Harvard fostered good morals in its men by encouraging productive activities. After the Civil War, tutors noticed that students were catcalling women in the streets or starting fires in the Yard. Such rowdiness led the Boston Post to gibe, “When a man wishes to pass for a graduate of Harvard, he has his room decorated with photographs of all the leading burlesque actresses...
...could easily assume that the foregoing description of an era refers to the series of controversies regarding the annexation of free and slave states that prefaced the Civil War. Ominously, however, it also flawlessly encapsulates the more recent fracas over congressional representation in the District of Columbia...
...power vacuum. At that moment, the long-time president of the country was shot dead in his home just hours after an armed attack on the military headquarters killed his Army chief of staff. The two men were adversaries in a bitter power struggle, one that had fueled a civil war in the late 1990s...
...Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog, suggested that the tribunal was ?politically selective? and that it should address the enormous number of other serious crimes committed in Lebanon in recent decades, especially during the 1975-1990 civil war. ?The mandate is by far the narrowest of any tribunal of an international nature,? Amnesty said in a statement issued Friday...