Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show trial of the three captive American soldiers. Against that, NATO's tally looks meager. And the geopolitical consequences of continuing to bomb are also piling up: deep strains with Russia; the possible chain reaction of instability in Macedonia and Albania; and above all the terrible tide of human misery flooding out of Kosovo. In fact, for Milosevic, the refugees have become his most potent offensive weapon, distracting NATO's leaders as they struggle to find a way to deal with hundreds of thousands of displaced persons...
...careering through the gates with dented fenders and wheels coming off. Tiger's been losing his temper and his putting stroke. He shed his agent, and he bagged his caddy, the cuddly Fluff Cowan. He does have one Tour win this season and a number of high finishes. By human standards, he's playing well...
...booze than the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, one cause seems to have galvanized students as nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center of campus, and at the University of California at Santa...
...manipulating students but motivating them," says the AFL-CIO's Sweeney. Either way, the outreach program has been a tactical masterstroke. "At this moment the sweatshop protest is definitely being carried on the backs of university students," says Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, one of several human-rights groups that are also counseling the students. "If a hundred students hold a protest, they get a page in the New York Times. If a hundred union people did that, they'd be locked...
...important to the movement's quick rise, the leaders say, is the use of e-mail, which has enabled them to get the word out to students across the country. "There's no way hundreds of students would have marched up to a university administration building just because some human-rights group asked them to," says Tico Almeida, a Duke senior who led the campus rally back in January. "Students have grasped this issue and made it theirs...