Word: homeland
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...Bhutto tried hard to delve into the informalities and novelties of American culture. In her autobiography Daughter of Destiny, she writes of her decision to adopt Western-style clothing--partly because the wardrobe of her homeland was not practical for Boston winters, and partly because it set her apart...
After hearing that Goldman predicted the secession of ethnic minority republics, riots in the streets and massive strikes in his homeland, Shalnev concluded, "Professor, you're a real pessimist...
...fact remains that the majority of young American Samoans leave the island within a year of graduation, often to return disenchanted with both the mainland and their island homeland. And alcoholism is a perennial concern in a country where beer sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading...
...extradition request for Palestinian Abdel Osama Al-Zomar, wanted for a bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing as narcotics traffickers. They persuaded him to discuss a drug deal on the yacht Skunk Kilo...
Kahane's racism is in itself proof that some Jews have perverted the Holocaust to justify oppression. A related approach has infected many others who resist calls for a Palestinian homeland. They are so overwhelmed by the horror of the Holocaust that they can only think of Jews as victims, not oppressors...