Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January of this year, Indonesia's new president, B. J. Habibie, attempted to boost his international credibility by offering East Timor a referendum on its status. In the August poll, 78 percent of the electorate chose independence, but pro-Indonesia militias ? backed by Indonesian military officers ? then launched a reign of terror against the pro-independence majority...
...thought about questions of race, but today a thinly veiled racism pervades the streets of Moscow. True, as a multinational empire (until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), Russia had hundreds of different ethnic groups within its considerable borders, including Slavs, Muslims and Turkish peoples. During their reign, the Bolsheviks addressed the concerns of such a multi-ethnic state, trying various methods to stay atop their empire. At one point, they used a divide-and-conquer approach that led them to create 10,000 different governmental subdivisions within the USSR in order to accommodate--and separate--each ethnic...
...thought about questions of race, but today a thinly veiled racism pervades the streets of Moscow. True, as a multinational empire (until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), Russia had hundreds of different ethnic groups within its considerable borders, including Slavs, Muslims and Turkish peoples. During their reign, the Bolsheviks addressed the concerns of such a multi-ethnic state, trying various methods to stay atop their empire. At one point, they used a divide-and-conquer approach that led them to create 10,000 different governmental subdivisions within the USSR in order to accommodate--and separate--each ethnic...
...Rudenstine's reign been good for the University? Undoubtedly, if Harvard's coffers are any measure of its success. In some ways, Rudenstine looks to have accomplished the goal that was set for him when he came in, cultivating greater concern for the University as a whole among its diffuse parts...
After Princeton ended the Harvard women's squash team's six year reign as national championship last year, the Crimson were determined to return to the top of the hill this season...