Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report says the extortionist criticized Alavi at the meetings at Au Bon Pain, saying he had "frauded his way through life" and accusing Western-educated Iranians of looking down on other Iranians...
...little independent political support within the country, he is nagged by the notion that he is warming the presidential chair for a glorious return four years from now by Aristide, who may not succeed himself under Haiti's constitution, but can run again later. The problems of the western hemisphere's poorest nation will not wait for the millennium, though, and it looks as though Preval has about three months to return Haiti from the brink of anarchy. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports: "It's going to be a pretty tall order for him because he does not enjoy...
...International Monetary Fund, which is lending Russia billions of dollars and is therefore in a position to tell the Russians that if they do not follow sensible economic policies, Michael Mandelbaum is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. they will not receive Western loans. Moreover, it is better that Russian anger at that message be directed at an international financial institution than...
...shouldn't be. Man's fascination with other worlds is as old as Western civilization. Galileo's discovery that they actually existed--that at least some of the pinpoints of light that wandered throughout the night sky had mountains and moons--set off a centuries-long quest to discover new planets. The first great success came in 1781, when William Herschel found Uranus. Then came the discovery of Neptune by Johann Galle in 1846. Eventually, the notion of otherworldly life made the transition out of the pages of philosophy and fiction: in 1894, the wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell built...
This injunction is peculiar and hard to disobey, given the gradual development in Western art of the maker overwhelming the made. Michelangelo became "Michelangelo" because his contemporaries, and then posterity, recognized the genius displayed across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and in such of his statues as David and Pieta. A similar process transformed Shakespeare into "Shakespeare." In both cases, magnificent achievements led to posthumous idolatry...