Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRINCETON, N.J.--Situation: You're the Harvard women's soccer team, in second place in the lvies, and you're facing near-cellar dweller Princeton on a balmy Saturday afternoon down in western New Jersey...
...UNICEF report revealed that 2.5 million Iraqi women and children were suffering from malnutrition because of the sanctions. "The feeling here is that the Americans will try to maintain the sanctions come hell or high water, to achieve their unstated objective of overthrowing the government," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "Saddam probably thought he had nothing to lose...
...image provoked an unusually fiery and emotional response in Israel. On Thursday 50,000 worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Western Wall to pray for the young man's safety. Waxman's mother Esther, an English teacher who emigrated to Israel in 1969 from New York City, reminded Washington that Nahshon held dual citizenship and pleaded for the U.S. to "get my son released." Even Sheik Yassin, the incarcerated and quadriplegic spiritual leader of Hamas, declared on Israeli television, "Killing him is not useful, and our religion orders us to take care of him and his life...
...converts to the Solar Temple, many of whom signed over their assets. Investigators suggested that the cult may have amassed as much as $93 million and that part of the money was used to support a posh life-style for Jouret and Di Mambro and to buy houses in Western Europe and Canada. Last week at least five more Temple properties were discovered. Two of them -- an apartment near Montreux, Switzerland, and a villa near Avignon, France -- had been rigged to explode in flames...
Before the collapse of communism, all Russian museums got government support, meager though it was by Western standards; but now, laments Piotrovsky, "even the Hermitage is getting much less than it was getting before." The financial crunch has revived talk of selling off items from the collection, as the Hermitage did in the 1920s; but that, the director points out, would be "a disaster -- you have only to begin, and you will finish and the museum has nothing...