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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...international programs must display the utmost sensitivity and respect for their host nations’ culture and people. If America is to be seen as a protector of democracy, not a cultural imperialist, its presence abroad must reflect this image in reality. This is why it is so important that Americans participate in global development in a non-military capacity...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: What You Can Do For the World | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

Team members also competed in sparring, which involves teams of three—each of which has a lightweight, a middleweight and a heavyweight member. Same-size members from competing schools fight each other and receive points for striking their opponent’s chest protector or lightly hitting the head area. The team that places highest in two out of three matches wins...

Author: By Jeslyn A. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taekwondo Team Earns Honors | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...stones. Who knows why? Because America had dropped bombs on them? Because we had an armed guard in a uniform as an escort? Because it was a novelty to throw stones at foreigners instead of always at each other? Maybe for all those reasons. Our armed guard and protector cowered behind a wall. He was to redeem himself later on, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pakistan, Everybody Must Get Stoned | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Super, Human Strength | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...importantly, it insults the memory of all those who died on Sept. 11, by discouraging young women and men from fighting to avenge the terrorist attack and to prevent future one. The U.S. military, despite its flaws, remains our country’s most selfless institution and the ultimate protector of our civil liberties...

Author: By John F. Bash, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bring Back ROTC Now | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

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