Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over 200 years ago, Japanese fishermen identified this Western weakness for mermaids. An oft-repeated folk tale told of a fisherman who caught a mermaid in his net. She spoke to him, but lived for only an hour. The story made for more than just good listening; industrious Japanese merchants began sewing the heads and torsos of monkeys to the tails and fins of fish, and selling their "mermaids" to gullible Westerners...
...Every time you see Haiti in the media you see `the poorest country in the Western hemisphere,'" said Laurent P. Alfred '96, the Alliance's political action chair. "It's becoming a title." Alfred added that many misconceptions about voodoo and AIDS in Haiti exist...
...forms, including economic restrictions, and proclaims freedom of expression as an essential human right. But government resistance to the charter's principles is tenacious. There is the argument from patriotism: nations, especially when in crisis, cannot tolerate destructive criticism. There is the argument from culture: chaotic Western concepts of freedom cannot be applied to societies based on order and stability. There is the argument from economics: undue press attacks undermine development. There is the argument from idealism: an irresponsible press is apt to spread racial and ethnic hatred. All of these assertions contain elements of truth. It is nearly impossible...
...Davidian compound in Waco, Tx., and the disastrous 1992 shootout at the home of white separatist Randall Weaver in Idaho, for which he was censured last month. Gingrich said those incidents, which have become rallying cries amonganti-government paramilitaries, aggravate a "genuine fear" of the federal government among rural western Americans...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA HomeAway Div. Detroit 33 11 4 70 180 117 17-4-3 16-7-1 17-5-2 x-St. Louis 28 15 5 61 178 13516-6-2 12-9-3 13-8-3 x-Chicago 24 19 5 53 156 1 15 11-10-3 13-9-2 7-13-4 x-Toronto 21 18 8 50 134 1 40 15-7-2 6-11-6 10-10-4 x-Dallas 17 23 8 42 136 13 5 9-10-5 8-13-3 8-15-1 Winnipeg...