Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he turned down offers of high-paying jobs in Libya and Iraq because he and his family could not consider leaving their beloved Sarajevo. "We are Europeans," says Rabija. "Who would want to live where you have to keep your face covered?" Kruno called his wife a Sarajevo patriot. "When we would go to the coast for vacations, we would stay only three or four days, and then it was back in the car, back to Sarajevo," he recalls. "When we got close to the city, she would curl her legs up on the seat and start singing...
Media execs agree that whatever the candidates do to cash in, they had best do it soon. Old candidates have a limited shelf life. How limited? We'll know this summer when bookstores get Gary Hart's The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America from the Barbarians. Free Press editorial director Adam Bellow, his publisher, says it's modeled on Machiavelli's The Prince: "He provides a world view and political advice to anyone running for office in the current media-saturated environment." That environment, plus Donna Rice, was the very thing that undid Hart's candidacy...
...shipment other than to say it included communications equipment aimed at helping Israel coordinate its anti-terrorist efforts with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "Clinton wants very badly to support the peace process, but the question is what can he do," TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says. "Much like the Patriot missiles in the Gulf War, this equipment will help make Israel more secure ." However, the effectiveness of this initiative remains to be seen. "I suppose it will be marginally helpful, but there is not much you can do to combat suicide bombers," TIME's Dean Fischer predicts. Meanwhile...
...Every patriot would have risen up in protest to ceding American sovereignty like that," Buchanan said...
...film called Devil's Own, co-starring Brad Pitt and directed by Alan J. Pakula, who also directed Ford in Presumed Innocent. He was an Academy Award nominee for best actor for his role in the movie Witness, and has also starred in the films Blade Runner, Patriot Games, The Fugitive and Clear and Present Danger. This year he played the male lead in a remake of the 1954 classic Sabrina...