Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger diplomatic effort last week was at the U.N., where negotiators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen continued to push their plan to carve Bosnia into 10 ethnically determined, semiautonomous provinces. The mediators are never certain from day to day which leaders of the three factions will show up, much less what their stance will be. The talks were apparently making progress when the Bosnian Muslims agreed to the military disengagement portion of the agreement in return for a promise that U.N. peacekeepers would take control of Serb artillery and heavy weapons. A day later, the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic...
...COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY. THAT, IN EFfect, was the response by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to growing signs that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive since July, is living in terror and squirming for a deal. Escobar's nemesis is a mysterious paramilitary group called Pepes, which may be a faction of the Medellin cartel that has turned on its longtime boss. Recently Pepes has launched a Mafia-style vendetta, even bombing the home of Escobar's mother. Said a DEA official: "He's facing his own medicine...
Together with Audrey Lord, the poet, who died in November, they constitute an extraordinary collection of individuals to have passed on in so short a period of time. Any yet, while one may say that, as individuals, each has been given his or her due in the mainstream media, I have noticed that a significant part of what they were and what they represent...
...that a complex undertaking? Absolutely. And absolutely necessary. They--Wallace, Lord, Lewis, Marshall, Ashe, and Gillespie--knew that a fundamental part of the legacy of the African American Past lies in accepting and indeed celebrating that complexity...
...sure, the White Media is generally willing to describe, either explicitly or, more often, implicitly, an Ashe, Lewis, or Lord as an "exception...