Word: feud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brustein touches on a number of issues whose importance transcend his feud with one particular newspaper. According to Brustein, the insistence on playing a "numbers game" with minority representation obstructs the central purpose of a cultural organization, to provide quality artistic works. However, others insist that past prejudice has infused cultural establishments with an instinctive bias against non-Western works. This deficiency needs to be erased through an increased infusion of minorities, and number counting is an appropriate way of measuring the success of this program...
Other Old Paradigms: Fidel Castro, apartheid, the American Century, cigarette smoking, labor unions and strikes, alcohol, CBS News, charisma, knowledge (as opposed to information), blood-feud revenge, corporate loyalty and paternalism, Northern Ireland, Mario Cuomo (the politician as a Frank Capra movie) and letter writing...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...
...Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to support the policies of the Bush Administration. And Gingrich seems perfectly willing to oblige -- provided he can formulate those policies himself. Gingrich's sharp-tongued truculence, scathingly defined as "New- Newtism" by Budget Director Richard Darman, is at the core of a smoldering feud that has Republicans brawling like, well, Democrats. If it continues, the rift could hurt George Bush's chances for re-election...
...latest feud between the U.S. and Israel suggests that Bush may need to rethink his strategy. Shamir's ideological commitment to the status quo remains unshakable, and the threat of Iraqi missiles and Palestinian support for Saddam has only reinforced his views. Although the Administration's strong-arm tactics generated plenty of anger and anxiety in Jerusalem last week, the U.S. notably failed to elicit even a hint of flexibility...