Word: descent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to respond to the editorial written by Allen Soong in your October 8 issue regarding the film The Joy Luck Club and Asian-American male identity. I first note that my use of the term "Asian" refers primarily to those of East Asian descent. I do not feel qualified to address these issues in the Southeast and South Asian communities, although I'm sure there would be some interesting parallels...
Putting together the exhibit, now on view at the United Nations in New York City, was no simple task. "There was an extraordinary outpouring from photographers," observes Aaron Schindler of Photo Perspectives, who designed the show. He, along with Sandra Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000 pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct agonies of the war -- ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers...
Three-time Republican advisor David Gergen came to work his charm on a White House that blamed a "lurch to the left" rather than incompetence and arrogance for President Clinton's dramatic descent into Gallup Poll hell...
...were confirmed. But they also received some good news: Greg was eligible for a sophisticated UCLA research project that would provide him with the enormously expensive treatment and medication required by schizophrenia. The Allers felt they had found a way out for their troubled son. Instead they found a descent into hell...
...hacked at his naked victims with a sword as he herded them by the thousands into the gas chambers he operated at the Nazi death camp Treblinka. American and Israeli officials were certain they had found him in John, formerly Ivan, Demjanjuk, a retired suburban Cleveland autoworker of Ukrainian descent. He was extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and condemned to hang after a dramatic trial that transfixed the nation...