Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One week after the signing of the historic agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, professors at Harvard say they are hopeful for the future of peace in the Middle East region, but they warn that many obstacles are far from resolved.
The principles did contain a bit of lofty rhetoric. The two sides pledged that they would "strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation." But they quickly got down to a fairly nitty- gritty discussion...
Statesmen preen with the conceit that they can alter the forces of history and cool the passions of humanity with their bold leadership or clever diplomacy, and on occasion they do. But in the case of ingrained historic hatreds, true change can come only from the volition of the peoples...
No bridge of sighs has seen more to lament than the Stari Most spanning the Neretva River in historic Mostar. Last week, as a precarious cease-fire held in central Bosnia, the bridge, festooned with old automobile tires in a gallant attempt to protect it from the ravages of shell...
With the peace talks in Geneva flickering on the brink of collapse, however, such hopes appear forlorn, and for the moment the beleaguered citizens of Mostar's mainly Muslim eastern quarter are surviving day to day on whatever aid can be negotiated past the city's Croat besiegers. Last week...