Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ethnic Studies seeks neither to rank human experiences in some hierarchy of legitimacy, nor to dissolve rigorous academic pursuits into a morass of relativism. Instead, it proves that nothing in human experience is as simple as it may seem in a first-year survey course. --Timothy "Cage" Hall, '94 Ajitha L. Reddy, '94 Yu Wong...
...back. Hard-liners within the army, furious at the prospect of international monitors, tried to mount a coup two weeks ago, and a group of young soldiers at the Freres army camp outside Port-au-Prince mutinied on Jan. 20. The 8,400- man army is dangerously riven: its rank and file fear that its leaders will cut and run into comfortable exile, leaving subordinates to face the people's anger. Aristide too suspects the army is bargaining in bad faith, but he is cooperating because there is no other way to rope the Clinton Administration into supporting his cause...
...rank-and-file GOP members owe Baker any loyalty. Baker is closely and perhaps irredeemably tied to Bush, hardly the most popular man in prominent Republican circles these days. His fuzzy stand on abortion and lack of any clear ideology offend the party's more partisan members. Besides, many moderate Republicans are so busy counting down the days until Jack F. Kemp's Presidential Inauguration to take Baker very seriously...
...Director-designate R. James Woolsey, 51, is a Rhodes scholar, a Bush conventional-arms negotiator and the most conservative of the group. Clinton also named Madeleine Albright to be delegate to the United Nations and announced that he would elevate the job to Cabinet rank...
Nonetheless, a campaign to disarm Somalis could create hostility. "If we were obliged to go on a house-to-house search -- which we wouldn't do anyway," said Oakley, "the Somalis would see it as rank colonialism." Still some Somali leaders discount a major backlash because, they say, the people are sick and tired of the violence...