Word: revolutionize
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Six months after her arrival in Ethiopia, a military revolution ousted Ethiopia's royal dictators. Although most academics were forced to leave the country, Shelemay says she, as a scholar of music, was able to stay because, "They didn't think I was much of a threat."
Shelemay says it was in part these ethical issues that prompted her to write A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey, detailing her experiences as an academic during a revolution.
It still remains to be seen whether 1994 was actually a dramatic conservative revolution, or merely a protest against a corroded political system. If the nation as a whole ideologically favors conservative policies in fiscal matters, but disagrees operationally with the kinds of cuts being made--and perceives them as...
In the meantime, Powell has driven a wedge into the middle of the Republican Party's right wing. Such conservatives as Paul Weyrich and Gary Bauer view Powell as a liberal and media darling who will use the nomination to halt the Gingrich revolution. But after Weyrich labeled Powell "our...
Republicans may have entered the slaphappy phase of their revolution, killing regulations simply because they can. Indeed, the nursing-home industry has not even asked for regulatory relief, in part because it would allow unscrupulous operators to flourish and bring shame on all of them. But Speaker Gingrich is hurtling...