Word: legacyism
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To really ensure that these faltering governments survive the loans must be erased. Or else, the dangerous murmurs will rise again from their populace: Na democracy man go chop? To those not versed in Pidgin English (a miscegenous legacy of the colonial era) the literal translation of this statement means...
"He inspired great loyalty and spirit among the Eliot House community, and during his time there Eliot House and its inhabitants had a strong sense of place. That alone is not too shabby a legacy for any House master to leave behind," Mitchell wrote in an e-mail message.
After three centuries, you would think the witch trials would have faded from memory. Yet Salem is still a powerful enough cultural landmark to bring 100,000 people here on Halloween. The town somehow has managed to turn a legacy that was once a curse--for many years after the...
Arafat and Barak have given themselves until February 15 to conclude a framework agreement on the "Final Status" issues, but during overnight talks in Oslo Tuesday they didn't even discuss their substantive difference, only procedural matters. The absence of any sign of progress in bridging the immediate differences over...
Two major cases before the United States Supreme Court could determine the criminal-rights legacy of the conservative-leaning Court headed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. On Monday, the Justices decided to hear the appeal of a Florida Supreme Court case, which found that a suspect couldn't be detained...