Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congratulate Oppenheim for his attendance record, though he seems to forget that awareness at Harvard of the dearth of female tenured professors, sexual assault or of broader issues of women's rights around the nation and globe continues to be lacking. Many women's groups on campus also attempt to travel beyond issues of sexual assault and rape on campus to tackle the problems that women across the world confront, from reproductive rights to sweatshop labor...
McCain's foreign policy--which would hopefully be led by Gen. Colin Powell as secretary of state, he said--would "cut down on deployments" around the world. At the same time, he would share missile defense technologies with Russia, despite that nation's controversial war with Chechen separatists...
...McCain said he would push to cut off funding from the International Monetary Fund to Russia if the former communist nation does not relent in its military campaign in Chechnya, calling Russian President Boris Yeltsin a "decrepit president...
...Friday night, December 10, 1999, the first president of modern Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, died. He was elected three times by an absolute majority of the Croatian people. Croatians consider him the father of their nation. Consequently, a BBC series documenting his life bears the title "Franjo Tudjman--The Croatian George Washington." I would like to take the occasion of Tudjman's death to reflect on his achievements. This seems especially important given the cold attitude of the Western media towards his death...
...became the embodiment, was answered with violence. The Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitary forces attacked Croatian citizens first hesitantly and then in a more open war. Croatia simultaneously faced open aggression and the tasks of political maturation. Tudjman took on both these major challenges to the newborn nation...