Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally she asks me what I would like to eat, making good on her promise to let me sample the goods. I'm non-committal, so she prods, "Do you eat clams?" "Yes," I lie, and she puts in the order...
...terms of human rights Cahill pointed to what he called historic oppression of the Catholic Irish majority by the Protestant minority and the British government. Specifically, he pointed to the Orange Order, a Protestant loyalist group which marches each Easter to commemorate along-ago victory over the Catholics, as a vigilante organization...
...legal way out, Mandela assumed his full responsibility. This conferred a new status of moral dignity on his leadership, which became evident from the moment he was returned to Robben Island. Even on his first arrival, two years before, he had set an example by refusing to obey an order to jog from the harbor, where the ferry docked, to the prison gates. The warden in charge warned him bluntly that unless he started obeying, he might quite simply be killed and that no one on the mainland would ever be the wiser. Whereupon Mandela quietly retorted...
...part, Bizimana believes that in order to exorcise their genocidal demons, Rwandans must look forward, into the promise of the global economy, and back, to the values of an authentic tribal heritage. "We need to be inspired by the positive values of our history," he says, "and combine them with the great universal values of the rest of the world." Perhaps realizing the burden he shoulders as one of his country's last hopes, he adds, "It is not enough to use these values as slogans or for propaganda. We have to live these principles for ourselves as leaders...
...Egypt the strategy of these relative moderates is for successive waves of activists to infiltrate key institutions--such as the legal and health-care professions, the education system, the media--until the secular system peels away and a truly Islamic order emerges. Among the increasing numbers of ordinary Muslims frustrated by unemployment and political repression, the fundamentalists' message has a striking appeal: citizens can change their lives for the better by doing nothing more than harnessing their traditional faith in Allah...