Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lemmon's successes since 1979 include British, German and Canadian Oscars, three more Academy Award nominations and the first-ever Harvard Arts Medal...
Khatami, on the other hand, is a liberal theologian, a politician who speaks of freedom, a family man with an avuncular grin and a scholar who has worked in the West and is said to be at home in English, German and Arabic. That's quite a contrast to the severe and sober ayatullahs who have governed since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Five years ago, they drove Khatami from his Cabinet post as Minister of Culture, accusing him of allowing an "invasion" of decadent ideas from the U.S. and Europe. When the elections came due, the ruling mullahs thought...
...State Madeleine K. Albright. But in July, as he has for the past 16 summers, he will pack his bags and disappear into the woods near Bemidji, Minn., where he will assume the identity of Karl, dean of Waldsee (lake in the forest), a village where everyone speaks German...
...where authenticity is a watchword. When 5,200 children (ages 7 to 18) "cross the border" into their respective villages for one to four weeks, they will be issued passports and exchange U.S. dollars for the appropriate foreign currency. Newcomers will be advised that speaking English is verboten. Speaking German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese is de rigueur...
...school-credit courses. Nine hundred villagers, ages 14 to 18, will be in one of these $1,850 sessions (some financial aid is available). "We try to get the credit villagers using the surroundings to experience the language and culture as intensively as possible," says Hamilton. "Nature is to German culture and history what the Wild West is to Americans and the ocean is to the British." To this end, some credit villagers will take part in Grune Welle (green wave), an immersion program in environmental studies. "We don't flinch from the more difficult topics either," reports Hamilton. "This...