Word: exodus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, President Ronald Reagan's political director. "In our business, you need 50% plus one." It's probably true that since 200,000 Pennsylvania Republicans have switched parties, Specter followed them to save his own political skin, but it's hard to see how the mass exodus bodes well for the GOP. You can't have a center-right coalition when you've said good riddance to the center...
...accept humanitarian conditions on aid; it has tightened its position on access to civilian refugees, whom it calls the beneficiaries of "the largest hostage rescue in the world's history." The Army's screening of civilians, for example, in which suspected LTTE fighters are weeded out of the civilian exodus, happens in a sort of no man's land just outside the combat zone, between the areas served by the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). That means there is no monitoring of how interrogations are being conducted, or how suspected LTTE fighters are being...
...free, improvisational character of jazz music with the elements of the classical compositional form he had honed during his undergraduate studies at Harvard. The product was “The Ten Plagues,” a ten-movement piece for small jazz ensemble based on the story of the Exodus. “My goal was to achieve a balance between making my piece sound free and to do what was necessary to make the work intellectually coherent,” reflected Schachter. “It was very artistically challenging. I personally have a lot of problems with...
...Associated Press, a memo the U.N. circulated among Colombo-based diplomats reported that more than 6,400 civilians had been killed and 13,000 injured in the last three months. Buhne declined to comment on these figures for TIME. What's indisputable, however, is the humanitarian crisis the exodus is creating. "The massive influx within three days has completely overwhelmed the resources available," Buhne said. "We have to act fast...
...commenced soon after, with the government rejecting calls by the U.N. and several western countries - including the U.S. - to extend the truce. "The process of the complete defeat of the LTTE has just begun," President Rajapakse told AFP news agency on Monday morning, as he watched footage of the exodus obtained by UAVs showing long lines of civilians crossing over to army-held areas. "It is now all over for the Tigers." The Defense Ministry later termed the latest flood of civilian escapees "the world's largest hostage rescue mission...