Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a new plane with a new crew and arrived in New York about three hours late. Huffed Passenger Emory Kristof: "I haven't seen a display like that since kindergarten...
Western science and technology have wounded the deep pride of Islam. The success of the unvirtuous, the infidel unfavored of Allah, is psychologically confusing. "Seen through Muslim eyes," writes Berkeley Historian Peter Brown, "the emergence of [the West] as the temporary master of the world remains an anomaly in the natural unfolding of the course of history." Muslims have recoiled from modernization in exact proportion to the force of its temptation for them. They have been attracted by secular materialism, have tried it in the guise of both capitalism and Marxism, but they have often been disappointed by it, have...
...century), Iran is different from the rest of Middle Eastern Islam. It was never colonized, in the usual sense of the word, by the West. And yet the penetration of Western ideas was deeper in Iran than in some other parts of the Middle East and came to be seen in a considerably more sinister light...
...circumstantial evidence. In 1963, while a resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, he attended a lecture by George Pack, a renowned cancer specialist. Pack told the audience that Dr. Frank Lahey, founder of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic, had confided to him that he had seen Roosevelt in early 1944 as a consultant and discovered that the President had a spreading tumor. Lahey had so informed Roosevelt, advising him not to run for re-election because he would not live out his term...
...week's end nobody could tell. Current deficit estimates still began at Joe Hannon's original $43 million. But tallies of total indebtedness to bondholders and others ran as high as $700 million. There was plenty of blame for everyone, though. Hannon; the mayor, who should have seen the problem coming; and the school board's finance committee, which did not even meet between January 1978 and March 1979, owing to "personality conflict," as one member recalls. Why did the board fail to slam on the spending brakes sooner? Says Board Member Patricia O'Hern: "They...