Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence...
...essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of 16-year-old Helen Burns and her married next-door neighbor Noah Robinson, Jackson suffered the taunt "Jesse ain't got no daddy" from other children in his native Greenville, South Carolina. After his mother married hardworking Charles Jackson and had a child with him, three-year old Jesse was sent to live with his grandmother...
...their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior. "It's scary to think of people doing something so mean so near," says Pauline Morton, who lives close to the Central Grove church. Her neighbor, James Wilbanks, a white man, says sadly of its congregation, "I hate now that we weren't more friendly with them...
...plane glided smoothly onto the runway in New York and my neighbor became absorbed into the surge of people leaving the airport. I looked out at the suited women and men hopping into their cabs and assorted car services and, from the perspective of security that two more years of undirected life provides, felt strangely excited about the possibilities of post-college life...
Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage...