Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will take an active role in combating terrorism and bridging security relations between the two sides. This is an excellent role for the agency in the aftermath of the Cold War. Hopefully the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has announced plans to review the proposal, will give it their stamp of approval...
After attending an activities meeting in Dunster House, Schauss realized that there were no existing clubs that captured her interest. Instead of giving up, she decided to form a group that would introduce students to a culture as warm as its climate is cold. Gathering supporters, she founded the Harvard-Radcliffe Scandinavian Folk and Culture Society...
With its bases in the Marxist philosophy repudiated by the U.S. victory in the Cold War, such a theory--that in any society there are a few people on top whose interests and benefit lie in their ability to fool the many on the bottom into supporting them--might well be spurned by the State Department...
...Susan Eisenhower, among others, might argue that America didn't win the Cold War (there was no invasion, no diplomatic crisis, no external threat that brought down the Soviet Union). The Russian people won it, with Marxist theory. It was ordinary Russian citizens along with renegade Russian soldiers who surrounded Boris Yeltsin on a hijacked tank in front of the Bely Dom during the August coup seven years ago. The many on the bottom of Soviet society refused to be fooled any longer into supporting...
...politically correct like to avoid absolute judgments, but Margaret Thatcher, Mansfield's recommendation for a future speaker, has surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...