Word: provinciale
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IN A YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are...
Opinion polls show that Lebed leads the platoon in the presidential race. He is a winning campaigner. When asked by a reporter in the provincial city of Tula whether he had the makings of a tyrant, Lebed described himself as "the very personification of compromise," pointing to his peacemaking role...
This is a lot of chaos for one provincial "control freak" (as Thompson describes her) to manage, and it's only natural that she submerge her interests while dealing with the muddle. Yet, by some patient alchemy, Thompson manages to hold our sympathetic concern despite her self-effacement. Precisely because...
Which is why Quebec's referendum is not the provincial story it seems. The 60% of French-speaking Quebeckers who voted to sever their political union with bicultural Canada are a herald of the death of diversity. They are a living refutation of the warm and cozy notion, based more...
AT HIS VILLA IN BEIJING, DENG Xiaoping, 91, sits in a wheelchair unable to speak. Sometimes he is shown a document, specially printed in oversized characters. He nods, shakes his head or simply stares. One of his daughters then attempts to decipher his meaning. Years ago, Deng resigned from his...