Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"His political theory comes from the American founding, the Declaration and the Constitution, so it's that sort of peculiar American conservatism, which begins with the Revolution and continues with the Constitution that was quite new to the political experience of republics before ours," Mansfield says.
At the same time, it would be irresponsible and naive to believe that we must accept all of Harvard's history without challenge or discretion. Instead, we must learn from the exclusions of the past and let them guide us as we work to make Harvard a more inclusive and...
Even his closest advisers acknowledge that Khatami has a tough job ahead in running a country of 70 million people. Iran's problems are immense, despite oil exports of $19 billion last year. Unemployment stands at perhaps 20%. Riots have flared as authorities have tried to cope with a huge...
Who voted for Khatami? Iranians fed up with political and social restrictions, women chafing at dress codes, twentysomethings denied satellite dishes and dispirited citizens who never saw a reason to vote--until Khatami came along. Few misunderstood the protest message of his triumph. Says Hassan, 18, a member of the...
Khatami, on the other hand, is a liberal theologian, a politician who speaks of freedom, a family man with an avuncular grin and a scholar who has worked in the West and is said to be at home in English, German and Arabic. That's quite a contrast to the...