Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirkland residents, and their one privileged friend per meal, are permitted to enjoy this luxury. Pforzheimer recently held a vote on whether to impose a symbolic retaliation against Adams House. (Yesterday, Adams responded by issuing its own declaration of hostilities against Pforzheimer.) We are in the midst of a war, where our only refuge--or guaranteed meal, for that matter--lies in our home base or the gracious pardon of a member of an enemy camp willing to invite you into his territory...
...said that while few have the power to stop war and human suffering in the world, everyone can save animals from suffering by becoming vegetarians or vegans...
...WASHINGTON] Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, Vietnam War Memorial...
What's really driving the war machine is not military necessity or strategic calculation or even the fear of terrorist attack. It is the Kremlin's politics of survival. Russia's leaders are waging a war of succession, designed by Kremlin imagemakers to prove to the Russian electorate that Prime Minister Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel hastily slapped into office by Yeltsin two months ago, is a real man, capable of leading Russia as President when Yeltsin steps down next year. The Kremlin logic is clear: Putin fights a short, brilliant war, his popularity rockets, and Yeltsin backers pump...
...late July 1950, it spanned a killing field. Last week the Pentagon was stunned by an Associated Press report, backed up by eyewitness accounts, that a frightened U.S. Army unit had killed as many as 300 civilians at No Gun Ri in the opening weeks of the Korean War. Such a bloodbath would rank as the century's second deadliest committed by U.S. troops, trailing only the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, where G.I.s killed up to 500 noncombatants...