Word: persianism
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...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...
...Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that mission is and whether the U.S. is carrying it out in the most sensible manner...
...speeches to religious groups, Elizabeth Dole tells the story of Esther, the Old Testament heroine confronted with a harrowing choice. When Esther, the wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
Alumni reported that their political leanings were overwhelmingly Democratic, leading them to support Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992 and again this year. While most vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, '71 graduates, especially men, tended to agree with the U.S. position in the Persian Gulf War and in Bosnia...
...first week or two we learned to recognize and reproduce colors specified by hue, intensity and neutralization. By the end of the year we were painting still-lifes and copying Rembrandt pen and wash drawings. In between, we copied Greek and Japanese line drawings, Persian designs, Botticelli's Venus and a good deal more. As a child I had loved to draw and had attended drawing and painting classes at the Museum School in Cleveland, but I knew nothing about art. Fine Arts A taught me how to see a painting or drawing--knowledge that has enriched my life immeasurably...