Word: nationalists
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...discipline the College has never quite known how to deal with. Over the last century, engineering has been taught under five different administrative organizations at Harvard. During this time, the discipline has always been an unsettling force within undergraduate education. Were it a colony, it would have the liveliest nationalist movement, having attempted “secession” twice, at its inception and in 1919. Today, it is content to be a privileged province...
...left-wing nationalist and 24-year veteran of the Peruvian Army, Humala himself has been accused of torturing and killing suspected guerrillas during the country's war against terrorism and the Shining Path in the early 1990s, charges he flatly denies. His only political activity before launching his campaign was a brief, unsuccessful uprising against then-President Fujimori in October 2000. After Fujimori's government collapsed a few weeks later, Humala was pardoned and sent abroad as a military attach?, returning to Peru early last year. He is the clear favorite among Peru's rural and urban poor, who have...
...government officials must pronounce only the word 'ruble.'" VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, leader of Russia's nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, who supports pending legislation that would ban officials from using dollars and euros in public statements, and merchants from posting prices in foreign currencies...
...soccer team is going to be a perfect reflection of your politics--and it may even be perverse to think of the game that way. But Bara represents a liberal nationalist spirit that makes for a powerful reprimand to both ethnic chauvinism and facile criticisms of the nation-state. Bara is the ultimate symbol of the Catalan people--one of their most glorious achievements, a monument to their language, history and struggle. But, at the same, it is a bastion of pluralism. Its anthem explicitly welcomes immigrants, and over time it has served as a powerful instrument...
...indeed, think like Americans. It is not intellectual integrity that leads us to pretend otherwise—and if we strive for “pure,” generic efficacy in academic life, we are apt to miss out on rich legacies in American thought.With a nationalist mindset, then, in my final weeks as a member of this academic community, I offer an instance of the most primal and distinctive kind of American speech: a jeremiad for the occasion.In the colonial pulpits of this area, fire-and-brimstone orations scorched the consciences of backsliding Puritan congregations. Termed...