Word: westerner
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...survey, Duke University was ranked fourth and MIT fifth. Rounding out the Top 10 list, in order, were Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, the California Institute of Technology and North-western University, which both tied for ninth place...
STUTTGART, Germany: What will NATO do when the Warsaw Pact is gone? U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher proposed Friday that the western military alliance sign up Russia and the former Soviet allies, its former opponents. Christopher is not offering Russia full NATO membership, but rather wants NATO's charter to reflect standing arrangements for consultation and cooperative action between Russia and the alliance, including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance...
...Saddam Hussein. Throughout, Saddam's regime waged a merciless war on Kurds, including the notorious chemical weapons attack on the northern Iraqi city of Halabiya in 1988. The Kurds united in rebellion against the Iraqi regime in 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, when the Western powers established an enclave where 4 million Kurds would be protected from Saddam. But even as the allied forces protected the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, the Kurds, true to their history, resumed fighting amongst themselves two years ago. Again, their infighting left them vulnerable to outside interference and Saddam...
...hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses the phrase salvage ethnography to describe the race to capture these traditions. "It would be tragic," he says, "if work like that of Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher turned out to be their final documentation...
...market that cannot support them? Instead of targeting the poor and powerless in making budget cuts, why doesn't Congress look to the wealthy and powerful? Why not set time limits for the billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks that constitute corporate welfare? RICHARD BARSANTI Western Springs, Illinois...