Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even at a cosmopolitan institution like Harvard, few people can claim as diverse a background as Yelena Khanga...
...teacher was James, the New Testament "brother of Jesus" and martyred leader of the Jerusalem church. James' Qumran faction, says Eisenman, was "aggressive, apocalyptic, nationalist, messianic and violent. Very violent." This wing bitterly opposed the Apostle Paul and his Hellenized movement, which rejected Jewish law and was "otherworldly, cosmopolitan, forgiving...
...recover, Africa in the coming years will need all its mystical powers of resilience. AIDS is devastating the continent's population. It has hit as hard among the cosmopolitan, educated elite as among the villagers, a fact that threatens continuing development. If the rate of infection continues to increase, the effect could be like that of World War I upon the youth of Britain, France and Germany. Yet in the strange arithmetic of apocalypse, aids will not serve as an ultimate check on over-population. According to World Bank projections, sub-Saharan Africa's population will rise from 548 million...
Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council have been on a collision course since he took office last January. Though thoroughly cosmopolitan and a graduate of universities in Cairo and Paris, the Egyptian, the first Arab and first African Secretary-General, sees himself as a champion of the Third World. He is demanding that the political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their...
...Solid South" has begun to lose some of its solidity. As more and more Northerners have moved to the Sunbelt in search of jobs, warmer winters, cleaner air and affordable suburbs, and as telecommunications have bound the nation closer together, the region has become more diverse, its citizens more cosmopolitan...