Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncompromising clarity of moral vision that is apparent in her best fiction: but these glimpses of Gordimer at her best only serve in this context to accentuate the readers disappointment in the rest of the compilation. In 1959: What is Apartheid?, a transcript of a seminar given in Washington DC, we see the Gordimer who we know and admire. Her prose rings pure and true, like good crystal: simple and clear, but heavy with a kind of unexpected weight. This is the Gordimer who spoke because her words demanded to be heard, and these words deserve reprinting because they bear...
According to Nancy Greenstein, spokesperson for the UCLA police, while Stuckey was in custody, his fingerprints were run through Livescan, a national fingerprint database based in Washington...
...Tharoor said the organization only receives attention for its diplomatic failures, leading many Americans, particularly those in positions of power in Washington, D.C., to be vocal critics...
There is a deep ideological belief in Washington, said Tharoor, in "U.S. exceptionalism," and therefore, in "U.S. unilateralism...
Like Freddie Krueger, Saddam Hussein looks destined to haunt America with an apparently endless string of sequels. Last December's bombs - and eight years of sanctions - have failed to dislodge him, and Washington has now been forced to accept that the reservations expressed by its European and Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming...