Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kroks--currently in the middle of their annual world tour--cancelled shows in Shanghai and Beijing after the Chinese government revoked their performance permits in the wake of strained relations with...
Even opposition activists have been shocked by the willingness of ordinary Serbs to demonstrate against Milosevic in the wake of the Kosovo debacle. On Monday 20,000 people ? almost one third of the town?s population ? took to the streets of Leskovac in response to a call sneaked into a basketball half-time show by a local TV technician. But even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic...
Then what is the solution? Surprisingly, there is one point of agreement for both sides in the debate over cascading. The low number of minorities at top-tier campuses should be a wake-up call about the need to improve K-12 education for all children (see the accompanying story). The racial gap in academic achievement starts in the earliest grades and grows worse. Among California 10th-graders, 88% of Asians and 76% of whites go on to graduate, but only 61% of blacks and 58% of Hispanics do. Thernstrom and civil rights groups both say the early grades...
...Vice President, found himself in 1945 facing the most daunting of responsibilities: ending World War II and containing Soviet communism. Truman's foreign-policy leadership gave the U.S. an unprecedented role in international affairs. The choices he made, from the Marshall Plan--to economically strengthen noncommunist nations in the wake of the war--to the founding of NATO, a peacetime military alliance that would limit the Soviet sphere of influence and provide an umbrella for Germany's reconciliation with Europe, fundamentally reshaped the world and planted the seeds of the Soviet Union's eventual destruction...
...blue Ford in the Windy City. On Sunday night, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, an activist member of the anti-minority World Church of the Creator suspected in four drive-by shootings Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Illinois and Indiana, apparently killed himself after being chased by police. In his wake he left two people dead -- one former Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, who was black, the other a Korean-American shot down outside a church. The chain: shots fired at three black men Saturday afternoon in Springfield (one was wounded); a Saturday night shooting of an Asian student in Urbana...