Word: reconstructionism
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With each notch up in tension, the whole rebuilding enterprise becomes more difficult. The fighting has grown so intense, security costs that were supposed to account for about 10% of the $18 billion in reconstruction money through September 2004 are instead running at 25%. Major contractors like General Electric and...
In his capacities as head of U.N. Peacekeeping and later as Secretary-General, Annan has been at the center of many successful U.N. projects and has catalyzed fundamental changes in the scope of the organization’s peacekeeping operations. He promoted a changeover to civilian government in Nigeria in...
His international standing came on the back of a simple demand. He issued a call last July that delegates for a planned constitutional convention be elected. When that idea was scrapped in November in favor of an interim legislative body, he reiterated that that body too must be elected. In...
Dangerous Business You too are parents and can understand our anxiety. Spare the lives of our boys." Antonella Agliana beamed these words to Iraq via al-Jazeera, hoping to elicit sympathy from the insurgents who held three Italian hostages, including her brother Maurizio. Three days before, word of a different...
Curiously, each song offers an independent and self-sufficient sampling of Anastasio’s emotive expression. Where “Prologue,” formerly known as “Nothing But An ‘E’ Thing,” pulses with woodwinds, the reconstruction of...