Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dayton peace accords, Bosnians are to go to the polls in national elections. But many cannot even vote in their hometowns, including Esad, who asked that his real name not be used. "There's no way I'll go to vote in Doboj," says the gaunt, soft-spoken former factory worker, sitting in the tiny room he shares with his wife and two daughters in Muslim-held territory south of the city, "I'm still too shocked from the beating I got the last time I tried to cross." Wherever they vote, Bosnians are expected to vote along rigidly ethnic...
TIME: Have you spoken to the President since your resignation...
...anthropologists, however, Africa's most impressive statistics are the ones that measure the enormous diversity of its people. Some 1,300 languages are spoken on the continent, about a third of the world's total. Each represents a distinct ethnic group with its own beliefs and its own rituals and ceremonies--some of which have been performed for hundreds of years...
...crucial potential to appeal beyond them. His support for immigration, school and housing vouchers and affirmative action gives him appeal to minorities and women voters who say the G.O.P. is too hard-nosed and exclusionary. "He's one of the few people in our party who has spoken in union halls and at N.A.A.C.P. conventions and has been applauded," says Dole senior adviser Charles Black...
...much salesmanship and too much smooth-talking, Bob Dole is a plain-spoken man," Powell said. "A man of strength, maturity and integrity. He is a man who can bring trust back to government and bring Americans together again...