Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest W L Pct GB L10 Streak Home Away Conf. x-San Antonio 52 18 .743 -- 10-0W11 30-7 22-11 31-11 x-Utah 52 21 .712 1.5 5-5 L2 27-8 25-13 28-17 Houston 42 29 .592 10.5 5-5L1 22-14 20-15 22-21 Denver 35 36 .493 17.5 6-4W4 20-14 15-22 21-23 Dalias 31 39 .443 21 7-3 L 2 16-19 15-20 18-24 Minnesota 20 52 .278 33 3-7W1 12-24 8-28 12-34 Pacific...
...saga began four years ago when then dean of Yale College, professor Donald Kagan, a vocal champion of the study of Western Civilization, helped inspire the $20 million donation from Bass, a 1979 graduate of Yale. Bass, whose family had given a total of $85 million to Yale by the early '90s, agreed to fund seven new full professorships and four associate positions in Western...
...irony is that many of Kagan's detractors on campus are also great advocates of Western Civ. Another is that by implying that multiculturalism, rather than clashing egos and tightfisted administrators, was interfering with Bass's gift, the Wall Street Journal editorial writers helped ensure the demise of a program that would have strengthened Yale's classical curriculum...
...crack down on troublemakers, though, Mrs. Clinton is visiting a country that has grown bitterly anti-American since the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Once-moderate Pakistan resents being left awash in drug and arms traffic--and trained Islamic fighters--built up with U.S. support during the Western campaign to oust the Soviet army from Afghanistan. In 1990 the U.S. Congress passed a resolution denying all economic and military aid to Pakistan over suspicions that it was developing nuclear weapons. Three years later, Washington threatened to place Pakistan on the list of states supporting terrorism--a move that would...
...northern Iraq to protect 4 million Kurds from annihilation by Saddam Hussein's vengeful army, the Kurds are threatening to annihilate themselves--because two rival leaders each hope to establish and control an independent Kurdistan overlapping the borders of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Massoud Barzani, who leads the western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties. The only thing the two have in common is a long-standing hatred for each other. In an increasingly bitter showdown...