Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of surrendering to the myth, Wolf is calling, if vaguely, for nothing less than its overthrow. The first step, she says, is to recognize the underlying issues of domination and female competition. Then she exhorts women to refuse to suffer any longer for the sake of an ideal beauty in which adornment and style are a source of pain rather than pleasure. That is both an old challenge and a tall order...
...into battle even if he had known all the consequences at the outset. From his point of view, the alternative was worse: the militant Islamic fundamentalism, fanned by the Ayatullah Khomeini, would arouse Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, some 55% of the population, leading not only to Saddam's overthrow but also to the domination of his Arab state by the descendants of the ancient Persian enemy. Would this really have happened? Saddam did not wait for an answer...
What they are doing there is still a mystery. At one end of the speculative spectrum is the theory that at least some fled after the failure of an Iraqi air force coup to overthrow Saddam; at the opposite end is the possibility that Saddam has swung a deal to have Iran keep them safe for a while, then return them to him later in the war. The prevailing idea is that Saddam intends to stash them away for use by a postwar Iraqi regime that he thinks he will still head. This is backed up by repeated Iranian assurances...
Harvard has not been the center for the coordination of violent activity for the eventual overthrow of a government. As far as I know, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 has not been stockpiling rocks, molotov cocktails and knives. President Derek C. Bok has not been urging students never to relent in a "holy struggle" against "the Zionist entity...
...seek the death penalty for their leaders. As the insurgents were led away from army headquarters, a crowd chanted, "To the wall!" -- meaning that the rebels should be lined up against a wall and shot. While there was no guarantee that a military minority would not try again to overthrow Argentina's fragile democracy, Menem had reason to be cheered by the support his actions had elicited from both his countrymen and his allies...