Word: nationalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begin taxing nonrecyclable cutlery and plates to entice consumers to buy more eco-friendly products. The so-called picnic tax of 58¢ per lb. ($1.29 per kg), part of an effort to curtail waste, may be extended to cover other household items like washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. The nation has a similar system in place for cars, whereby heavily polluting vehicles pay steeper taxes...
Journey with me to the sepia-toned days of fall 2007. An innocent nation grappled with the news that Dumbledore was gay. Hillary Clinton girded for her inevitable presidential race against Rudy Giuliani. And the networks, after launching a roster of fall shows to anemic ratings, were hit by a three-month-long writers' strike...
...genre they founded has lived on, and each decade has given it a different period savor. The 1990s produced slacker crack-ups like Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation. Now, in the 2000s, we have Hurry Down Sunshine (Other Press; 234 pages), Michael Greenberg's account of his daughter Sally's psychotic break, which she experienced at the tragically precocious...
...free nation, this is entirely possible. Professor Darnton should consider what this country would be like without a liberated, vigorous press drawing on the talents of close observers of enormous skill and perception. I have worked in nations where the press was not free—where it served as a mouthpiece of the state or special interests under Soviet communism, for instance, or a host of Middle Eastern and Asian dictatorships. Their nations, their people were far the worse for this lack of an unfettered press...
...Zimbabwe faces a critical moment in a history riddled with political problems. Since Zimbabwean independence in 1980, President Mugabe has led a nation gripped by economic recession and hyperinflation; according to the Kenya Standard, inflation rates now reach up to 20 million percent. Mugabe, as the chief decision-maker in Zimbabwe, has attempted reforms whose failed results he has blamed on indeterminable interference by Western states, such as Zimbabwe’s one-time colonizer, Great Britain. Amidst all this economic trouble, Zimbabwe continues to enforce strict restrictions on distribution of aid across the country. Any improvements for life...