Word: ruralism
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...militia that dubbed itself the Taliban, Pashtu for Islamic students, emerged in 1994 from the rural southern hinterlands of Afghanistan, under the guidance of the reclusive onetime village preacher Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fed by recruits from conservative religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...
...Brother and sister come from the same tiny village in Pakistan's rural Sind province and were raised by the same parents. But they have chosen two radically different paths. Attiya is a poet and women's rights activist. Unlike many Pakistani women, she married the man she loved, the painter Khuda Bux Abro, and is so unconcerned with the trappings of religion that acquaintances sometimes ask if she is even a Muslim. Attiya's thoroughly modern girls, aged 7 and 11, wear T shirts, jeans and short, sleeveless dresses and read Enid Blyton novels and the Guinness Book...
...Congressional leaders and longtime colleagues in Pennsylvania are cheering the President?s nomination. Ridge, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, is both respected and well liked in an area where other politicians have seen their mandates stymied by the state's starkly divided urban and rural ideologies. Before returning to Pennsylvania to win the governorship in 1994, Ridge served in the U.S. House from 1983 to 1995. The Harvard graduate (and lawyer) also served as an assistant district attorney in Erie County...
Both sides of this debate claim to be working for diversity. The Georgia appeals court said UGA's inflexible formula, which assigned extra points to blacks, made the mistake of assuming that groups, rather than individuals, add diversity to a campus. "A white applicant from a disadvantaged rural area in Appalachia may well have more to offer a Georgia public university such as UGA--from the standpoint of diversity--than a nonwhite applicant from an affluent family and a suburban Atlanta high school," the court wrote...
...rural western Pennsylvania, investigators found the black box and flight data recorder from United Flight 93, which crashed into the countryside after several passengers apparently decided to try to overpower the hijackers after learning that two other planes had been crashed into the World Trade Centers. Some suspect flight 93 may have been bound for Camp David or another high-profile target. Workers also recovered the black box from the plane that crashed into the Pentagon...