Word: wartorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shattuck's has worked largely in areas of political and social instability. He has participated in diplomatic missions to forty countries, including the Czech Republic. His support for human rights has led him to Bosnia, Rwanda and many other wartorn countries...
After spending 27 years in prison, Mandela has forgiven his captors and is leading and uniting a previously wartorn South Africa. He gets my respect right there. Just because he does not toe the line of American foreign policy and does not share his Earl Grey with the right people does not mean he should lose...
...panel: Merry Jean Chan '97 and Sanjay Shetty '96, co-chairs of the Harvard Foundation student advisory committee; Kristen M. Clarke '97, president of the Black Students Association; and Peter C. Hanson '95, who is writing his senior thesis about the United Nations' success in building democratic institutions in wartorn nations as a final stage of peacekeeping...
...between President Bill Clinton's open-ended approach and the tight, focused mission defined by former President George Bush. Because Clinton let the United Nations take the lead, the argument goes, the mission's purpose was enlarged to include a vague (and costly) vision of "institution-building" in the wartorn country...
...church, starve peasants in forced famines, purge political opponents and resettle entire ethnic groups. The financing of terrorists, who received arms shipments from Soviet warships on the high seas. The personal enrichment of party leaders. The sale of diamonds and gold abroad to buy food and consumer goods for wartorn Afghanistan at a time when there were chronic shortages at home. The squandering of hard currency on more than 70 communist movements around the globe. In one bizarre incident, the party funded training for Italian communists in radio codes and cosmetic surgery -- in case they had to go into hiding...