Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...university as an extension of the degradation of public culture. The impetus for both is democracy, which aims to secure immediate validation for all possible experiences, including the most vacuous, lurid and debauching. As pornography, crudeness, and sensationalism erode public decorum, great pressure bears on the university to follow suit--to become indiscriminate, to refrain from judging and to take everything...
...side are the followers of Massoud Barzani in the K.D.P., strong in tribal tradition, who control the lucrative smuggling routes into Turkey. On the other are many urban intellectuals who follow Jalal Talabani and his P.U.K. The two men despise each other and disagree fundamentally on how to achieve self-rule: Barzani would accept autonomy within Iraq, while Talabani would settle only for full independence. Perhaps worse, Talabani, whose territory is squeezed between Iraq and Iran, is jealous of the rich "customs tax" Barzani collects from the truckers surreptitiously ferrying oil and goods between Turkey and Iraq in violation...
Also, be on the look-out for a sleek helmet; we're one athlete fatality away from a fashion explosion in headgear. For the ultra-cool, follow senior infielder Peter Albers' avant-garde style and skateboard to practice...
GENEVA: In the first follow-up to the international Earth Summit in Rio on the issue of forestry, officials are meeting in Geneva to find a way to ensure sustainable harvesting from the world's forests. TIME's Robert Kroon reports that while the number of forested acres in northern climes is stable or increasing, rapid deforestation continues in tropical rainforests of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. More than 200 experts are gathered to find ways of balancing pressures on forests -->