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Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this can happen too soon. Demands for ethnic self-determination could soon cause fearsome violence in many more parts of the world. China gives the outside world the impression of being a monolith, yet it contains 55 ethnic minorities numbering perhaps 80 million people, many of whom are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splinter, Splinter, Little State | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

. An earnest though imperfect attempt to embody the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination, the postwar settlement created several new countries that were true nation-states. The Poles got back Poland, and the Hungarians got Hungary.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: End of Empire -- For Good | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

He spent one winter vacation in Lake Nebagamon,Wisconsin at the home of his roommate, Thomas J.Norman '92. "When we talk about racial diversityback home, we mean there are Poles, Germans, andScandanavians," Norman says. "Everyone was reallytaken with Anton. They liked him so much that theyasked him to give a...

Author: By William H. Bachman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Who Swam From Africa to Harvard | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

The charges leveled by the guards and theofficials' denials of the charges representopposite poles of perception in the securitydivision of the police department.

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Security Officials Deny New Charge By Minority Guard | 5/20/1992 | See Source »

The baseball-size pets sell for about $10. To the right owner they provide sensitive, undemanding companionship. But if any of the Giant Africans are the same species that terrorized Florida for several years during the 1970s, they can also cause disaster on a biblical scale. Sexually mature at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Ain't Escargots | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

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