Word: historicizing
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A quick examination of these points reveals their inherent logical flaws. While Cheever is aware that both Native Americans and some Palestinians were displaced from their homes, he seems oblivious to the historical context of their displacement. He claims that Israel was created “as a safe haven...
Councillors cited the zoning—which came out of an 18-month long, 18-member Eastern Cambridge Planning Study—as being historic both for the way it was done as well as for the housing the zoning will create.
The question of legitimacy is flagrant in Iran, where President Mohammed Khatami and his supporters won all the popular elections but could not win real power, which instead resides with Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In Syria it seems there is no way out of Hafez Assad's authoritarian legacy. If Saddam...
Finally, Summers was invited to sit in the historic Harvard president’s chair—an uncomfortable feat, he later implied, although he grinned as he took his seat in the Holyoke chair.
While the U.S. vision of a political solution based on Oslo may be broadly endorsed among its Arab allies, achieving an Israeli-Palestinian agreement to pursue such a solution remains as unlikely now as it would have been at 8.50 a.m. Eastern on September 11. While the terror attacks may...