Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace," incapable of dealing with "life in the Arab world today with its terrible inequities, its self-inflicted wounds, its crushing mediocrity in science and many cultural fields." In sum, if Said is the Arab world's propagandist, it should hire a new one fast. He has always rejected the "tyranny and atavism" of Islamic fundamentalism, in the name of the secular, liberal and humane strand in Arab culture whose voices are silenced by Middle Eastern regimes and ignored...
...Houston, Korean-controlled nude-modeling studios have been supplied by flesh traders who bribe American soldiers based in South Korea. The G.I.s are typically paid up to $5,000 to marry Koreans and bring them back to Fort Hood, Texas, where they divorce them for an equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic...
...answering machine at Princeton refers those interested in arranging a speaking engagement to a high-powered New York booking agency. Along with Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish magazine Tikkun, he received a $100,000 advance for a joint book on black-Jewish tensions, an almost unheard-of sum for a scholarly work...
...part of the agreement, the ART receives free use of the Loeb for professional theatrical productions as well as an annual lump-sum payment earmarked for undergraduate theater production--which usually amounts to about a half-million dollars...
...real measures by which he will ultimately be judged, like deficit reduction and health-care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue to turn every disagreement into some kind of Quien...