Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about five pages, and you will be more than won over, you will want to intern for him-for free. In an atmosphere rife with political correctness, Doonan never veers from the unapologetic identity of, as he puts it confidently, "a pansy." The difficulty of being gay and the terror of possibly dying of AIDS are smothered under the same ecstatic "je ne sais quoi" which spikes his window threatrics...
...Labor's Ehud Barak is currently ten points ahead of Bibi Netanyahu in the polls, and will try to keep his lead by talking tough on peace. But Palestinian violence could turn things around. "Terror attacks work in Bibi's favor," says Beyer. "If the Palestinians want him out, they'll have to do their utmost to prevent new violence." But with the peace process on ice for the next five months, that may be a tall order...
...Harvard graduate whose guilty plea enabled him to avoid a possible death penalty for an 18-year terror campaign...
Though the U.S. soon flexed its military muscle with the cruise-missile strike against bin Laden, and his network has been quiet for four months, Washington still sees him as a major threat. The White House has ordered stepped-up efforts to disrupt the terror network, but with mixed results. Treasury Department officials have made no headway dismantling bin Laden's financial empire. Most of his investments are in European or African companies that are unaffected by U.S. economic sanctions and don't deal in dollars, which Treasury could track. The State Department, likewise, has not convinced Afghanistan's ruling...
...year, the class at Highline Community School in Aurora, Colo., listened in shock as their teacher read a newspaper story about a country in Africa called Sudan and the thousands and thousands of people, mostly women and children, who were being traded as slaves there. Recalls Vogel: "There was terror and disbelief in their little eyes." Says Brad Morris, 11, who was in class that day: "No one had any idea that slavery could still be going on anywhere in the world. We decided to do something so it wouldn...