Word: third world
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...hate this question. Pardon me for a moment while I decide my future. "I'm going to assassinate a third-world leader and set up a petty dictatorship. "I don't know what I'm doing yet, thank you. Why should I be made to feel guilty because I don't know where I'll be in a couple months...
...Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights has a surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...
...Third, there has been a widespread implication that people choose to participate in ROTC only for financial reasons. This is simply untrue. While ROTC scholarships are certainly an important avenue for students from from lower- and middle-income families, the desire to serve one's country comes before the need for financial aid in most cases. Serving as an officer in the military has been a desired and respected profession throughout the world for hundreds of years. To imply that the only reason one would choose to do ROTC is for money is an affront to the values and beliefs...
...Harvard varsity heavyweight crew continued its dominance of the collegiate rowing world Saturday with a convincing nine-second victory over Princeton on Lake Compton in Princeton, N.J. MIT finished third, 35 seconds off the pace...
...calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were "flat-footed lies" and that sending cigarettes to the Third World was "the export of death, disease and disability...