Word: culturese
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Political demonstrations turned musical this week as members of a protest group entered Harvard classrooms, singing for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. The vocalists were members of the LaRouche Youth Movement—followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, a political agitator and eight-time presidential candidate. Some professors...
More important, Perot demanded much greater autonomy for EDS than Smith was prepared to grant. When Perot became impatient with the pace of change at GM and began carping publicly about the need to "nuke the GM system" and "teach an elephant to tapdance," the clash of personalities and cultures...
But the stew of cultures that bubbles away in my beloved Kuala Lumpur food courts is one of the last strongholds of Malaysia's multi-culti ideal. Half a century after the Southeast Asian nation broke free from British rule and formed a multiethnic state, national unity is being cleaved...
“He loved experiencing different cultures,” said longtime friend Jeffrey P. Burch, who attended D’Evelyn Junior/Senior High School in Denver, Colo. with Wilson.
With the fur trapper and wilderness scout Kit Carson as his focus, Sides has constructed a heartbreaking history of three cultures in the Southwest--American Indians, Mexicans and Americans--during and after the Mexican-American war, an age of bloody confrontations in which the Navajo would be all but swept...