Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the day they marched into Kabul, the Taliban's adherents have sought to eradicate women from public life. In a land where the women have had to work while the men fought, the regime has barred females from taking any job outside the home or even leaving their houses without a male relative to accompany them. Girls have been thrown out of school. Foreign-aid agencies have been forbidden to offer any of their services or assistance directly to females...
...risking their necks (and breaking a leg) for the suicidal glory of getting to the top of something they can only come down from--the high before the depression. It documents the stubborn spirit of a fellow contemptuous of compromise, almost of humanity, and his rebirth in a land where each desolation dissolves in beatific smiles. It is about a solitary star, trussed in celebrity, who learns how to be a team player. This motif, of fame as a badge and as a burden, struck a chord in Annaud's lead player. "I loved," the director says, "that Brad understood...
...Netanyahu's hard line stands" for wanting Arafat to abide by the provisions of the Oslo accord, and that Arafat "has usually been the more movable party." Show me one tangible move. All I see are dead Israelis, decreased access for Jews to Jewish holy places, the trading of land for peace, and the call for Israel to allow 100,000 potential terrorists to enter its borders daily. Perhaps Mexico should insist on the return of lands stolen from it by the U.S., and of course it should insist that every day workers who wish to cross the Texas...
Williams, who admitted to being "a little stunned," will split the $1 million prize money with the rest of the organization. Even better, her much publicized call for the U.S., Russia and China to sign up to the international land-mine accord seems to be working already: Boris Yeltsin announced Friday that Russia would sign...
Fulfilling what would have been Diana's wish, the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (TIME Daily...