Word: hille
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...split first surfaced two weeks ago on the Senate floor, when only 16 Republicans voted to support the NATO air strikes. "To say Republicans are uneasy about this is an understatement," says a top G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill. "This is a party that likes to think of itself as the mirror image of those antiwar protesters who undermined those American boys in Vietnam. But because the situation is so volatile and the President hasn't laid out an endgame, it's hard to react...
...leaders on different campuses and coaching students over the phone during sit-ins. In February the union sent two sweatshop workers on a five-campus tour to spur greater interest in the cause. Though many student activists, like Marion Traub-Werner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, say they discovered the sweatshop issue on their own, UNITE has clearly been helpful. After leading campus anti-sweatshop protests for two years, Traub-Werner got an invitation from UNITE to join a delegation on an all-expenses-paid visit in late March to a factory in Guatemala City...
...walks the line. Between gangsta-leaning and Godfearing, between lustful and romantic, between the poetic and the scatological. He has starred in a movie (director Hype Williams' Belly), performed high-profile duets (with Mary J. Blige and Lauryn Hill), and dodged death (when his friend and fellow New Yorker Biggie Smalls was shot and killed in 1997, Nas went into virtual seclusion, fearing for his life). He's proud but not bombastic, he's casual in tone but almost always serious in content, and although his raps are deeply personal, he strives for the prophetic. He's a craftsman...
Former Senator David Pryor (D-Ark.)--now afellow at the Institute of Politics(IOP)--preceded Nye and opened the speech withhigh praise for his former Capitol Hill colleague...