Word: westernness
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Ebert taught at the University of Chicago for 10 years before moving to Case Western Reserve University...
...Most Western diplomats and analysts believe a settlement that grants Chechnya some kind of special status within the Russian Federation is the only possible long-term solution. A counterinsurgency war would be expensive and bloody, and the Russian armed forces are obviously not up to the job. In any case, their commanders should have learned in Afghanistan that conventional armies do badly when pitted against highly motivated guerrillas. If Yeltsin chooses to fight, by election day in June he could be under political attack from both sides: hawkish rivals criticizing the unsuccessful conduct of the war and doves calling...
...brutalization of children, anytime, anywhere, is indefensible. So the starvation and abuse of Chinese orphans and foundlings documented in the recent highly publicized report from Human Rights Watch/Asia deserves--no, demands--our attention. But what will the nature of that attention be? Since the report's release, the Western press has largely accepted the blanket characterization of China's orphanages as "a secret world of starvation, disease and unnatural death." Never mind that the broad condemnation omits context: by Beijing's own conservative estimate, 70 million of China's 1.2 billion citizens live in poverty. No doubt many of those...
...Yeltsin accepted the resignation of his Foreign Minister, Andrei Kozyrev. In preparation for the critical presidential election in June, Yeltsin took the opportunity to rid himself of a minister who clashed with communists and nationalists, winners in last month's parliamentary elections. Kozyrev is identified with a strong pro-Western foreign policy...
...themselves out from the "Blizzard of '96," another snowstorm is bearing down on the region, threatening to further slow cleanup efforts of the storm that has paralyzed much of the east. Starting sometime Friday, forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of snow in parts of western Maryland, with at least several inches predicted for most of the coast. TIME Daily'sspecial coverageincludes reports from the National Weather Service and TIME correspondents in RealAudio, plus a look behind the weather and select links to other Web resources.SNOWJACKED!If New Yorkers drank as one from the cup of human kindness...