Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black "for their own good." If they show any skin or go outside without a male relative, they risk death. Women can't be treated by male doctors, yet women aren't allowed to practice medicine. Only boys can go to school...
...last 15 years we have created a global financial situation in which the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer," he said. "Major western nations have not exhibited a sense of responsibility about the rest of the world...
Aileen M.mcNamra is the recipient of the Western New York Public Service Fellowship...
This year 30 students applied for the Wilmers felowship, which is funded by Robert G. Wilmers'56. The Western New York Public Service Fellowship is funded by M&T Bank, where serves as chief excutive officer...
...second half of the meeting, the Council also passed a motion calling for a zoning analysis and a history of the site of Memorial Drive and Western Avenue. Harvard has discussed the possibility of building a modern art museum at the site, said Councillor Henrietta Davis...