Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seniors, playing their final game in a Harvard uniform, left more than just memories on the floor of the Lav Pav. Harvard's three leading scorers were Miller, Janowski and co-captain Sarah Russell, whose 12 points are two shy of a career best. Senior Kelly Kinneen was a terror on the defensive...
...seniors, playing their final game in a Harvard uniform, left more than just memories on the floor of the Lav Pav. Harvard's three leading scorers were Miller, Janowski and co-captain Sarah Russell, whose 12 points are two shy of a career best. Senior Kelly Kinneen was a terror on the defensive...
...story of how Ocalan wound up in his enemies' hands reads like a thriller. Since the mid-'80s, the Turkish-born university dropout had spent most of his time safely ensconced in Syria. From there, he directed terror against Turkish targets from P.K.K. bases in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. His goal: to force Ankara to grant independence to the country's 12 million Kurds, part of the estimated 20 million Kurds who straddle five nations. Turkey has sought to eradicate Kurdish nationalism by suppressing their language, culture and political rights. Even so, millions of Turkey's Kurds...
...first memories of China go back almost 50 years. Sitting in front of our 10-in. Philco television, over milk and peanut-butter sandwiches, my closest third-grade friends and I watched, with fascination and terror, the grainy news footage of Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River into Korea. It was 1950, the year after Mao Zedong and the communists had taken control of China, exiling General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party to Taiwan. And now they were fighting...
That fascination and terror would grow in the decade to come as I, and millions of other Americans, grew up reading Henry Luce's TIME. It was Luce, born in China to Presbyterian missionaries, whose powerful newsweekly most demonized Mao and, by extension, all of what became known as Red China. Later, in the 1970s, I lived in Hong Kong, where, peering across the border, I had the chance to observe Mao's last days, when the notorious Gang of Four reduced China to chaos and near anarchy. I thought then that Luce was probably right. China was a country...