Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hussein was always more than merely a survivor. Though he made costly mistakes, he emerged as the region's strongest force for moderation. Though he was frequently betrayed by friend and foe alike, even targeted for assassination, he responded with magnanimity. He molded a modern, cohesive state from a collection of Bedouin tribes and Palestinian refugees, and won something rare in his nasty neighborhood: a lifelong reputation as a man of tolerance...
Members of SASI, an offshoot of the South Asian Association (SAA), hope to educate the Harvard community about a region inhabited by one-fifth of the world's population. With a sass befitting its anti-establishment stance,SASI members have taken education into their ownhands with letter-writing campaigns and otherpolitical tactics...
...pounding of Boston College will certainly send a shockwave through the region as Harvard heads into a contest with No. 2-ranked Brown. Against B.C., a generous balance of experience, youth and toughness swept any doubts from Matthews Arena...
...reliance on foreign oil spawns problems abroad like the morass the nation has been drawn into in the Middle East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
...Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only "the first step in a long process that will be going on for the next decade and will affect peace, energy and stability in the region...