Word: legacyism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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How unfortunate for Hillary Clinton to be forever linked to Bill's distasteful legacy of immorality and scandal. The weight of that baggage might keep her from rising to the presidency. Joseph M. Kosanovic Camp Hill, Pa., U.S.
Remembering a Master's Voice I mourn the passing of the world's greatest tenor, Luciano Pavarotti [Sept. 24]. We are lucky to have his recordings, which are his legacy. I saw all his operas at the Met and was allowed to go backstage to meet him. He was gracious...
But in keeping with the legacy of Indian independence, the aura of nationalism that surrounded Mohun Bagan soon faded with the conflicts of partition. The well-heeled Calcuttans who ran Mohun Bagan often discriminated against athletes from the eastern parts of Bengal, whose accents, culinary tastes and even modes of...
At night, the streets of Phnom Penh reveal the country's vast wealth gap. In front of shopping centers selling luxury cosmetics, whole families sleep on patches of sidewalk; beggars missing limbs, a legacy of civil war, crowd outside upscale restaurants where a tiny élite downs French entré...
In contrast to that of other leaders, many of whom were the children of senior officials based in Beijing, Hu's path took him through some of China's poorest regions. During spells in the western provinces of Guizhou and Gansu and later in Tibet, Hu is said to have...