Word: hardships
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...exchange is stoically recalled in Days of Grace, published four months after Ashe died of AIDS contracted from that tainted pick-me-up. If there were lamentations for his added hardship, they are not in the pages of this memoir, which Ashe started writing last June. He had endured greater pressures. "Race has always been my biggest burden," he writes. "Having to live as a minority in America. Even now it continues to feel like an extra weight tied around...
...elections will not usher in a ready-formed New South Africa. Even as most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...from homes in territory now controlled mostly by Muslims. They have come to these trenches as refugees, often after harrowing escapes; they have lost everything and say they will not run any farther. The great majority are peasants who have no skill at politics but a great capacity for hardship when they are certain of their course. They are Serbian true believers. No matter what the politicians order, no matter what the world thinks, they will not yield these trenches, this town...
...been a long time since American liberals have been accused of excessive interventionism abroad. About 30 years. John Kennedy in his Inaugural Address promised to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." It was the single most ambitious formulation of American goals in the cold...
...Never before has a nation with such a despotic history as Russia's transformed itself into a multiparty democracy with a market economy. Yeltsin and his team of shock therapists have been at the task since the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, producing few successes and much turmoil, hardship and anxiety. As the pain mounted, Khasbulatov and the President's other conservative antimarket, anti-Western rivals muttered and threatened, then finally struck...