Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western diplomats reported a breakthrough agreement with Serbia over the stationing of international civilian monitors along its border with Bosnia, raising the possibility that the U.N. may ease some of its less important sanctions against Serbia. The monitors' mission would be to help ensure that Serbia is keeping its word on the military embargo it has imposed against its Bosnian Serb allies as a result of their refusal to sign on to the latest peace plan...
Irving gives his hero yet another reason for visiting India. Daruwalla is the secret screenwriter behind the Inspector Dhar movies, a wildly popular and controversial series featuring a sneering, tough-talking Western-style gumshoe. Every Dhar film offends some segment of Bombay's populace; the number of people who resent the main character has grown with each new release. Death threats have begun cropping up among the hate mail. The actor who plays Dhar bears a complicated and secret relationship to Daruwalla, and also has an identical twin, separated at birth, who knows nothing of his locally infamous brother...
Then there's the Clinton problem, especially for candidates in Western and Southern states where his popularity is lowest. Even so, Democrats are not running away from him everywhere. Later this month, the President will be campaigning intensively in several states where the party believes he can help, including Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri. His job will be to remind voters that the economy is in the best shape in years, the deficit is declining, and his Administration has ushered through a significant run of legislative successes on such things as the North American Free Trade Agreement, crime and family...
...mythologies of many Native American tribes feature a character known to anthropologists as the trickster. He is both good and bad; a creator but also a mischief maker. Above all, he is duplicitous: joyously, energetically deceptive. Among the Tlingit people of western Alaska, the trickster figure is known as the Raven. At the moment, however, someone bearing a striking resemblance to him is roaming the Ketchikan area under another name...
...rates. But the arguing at this highly contentious gathering isn't over just yet; a vote on the document is expected tomorrow. The so-called "Program of Action" seeks to curb population by promoting economic development and educating women. Delegates today overcame the final sticking point in favor of Western countries by ruling that migrants did not have automatic rights to reunite with their families. The Vatican is expected to continue its opposition because the plan does not denounce abortion; it leaves the question up to the laws and customs.of the individual countries...