Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given to us." But as dinner stretches to midnight, Thaci begins to flag. Perhaps it is the endless days of negotiations with the U.S. or the months of war or just the barrage of journalists' questions about how exactly...
Straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, the rustic villages of western Mass. Are among the remaining outposts of small-town New England. Nestled in the rolling Berkshires, Greyhound serves Stockbridge, Williamstown and other towns in the area...
Straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, therustic villages of western Mass. Are among theremaining outposts of small-town New England.Nestled in the rolling Berkshires, Greyhoundserves Stockbridge, Williamstown and other townsin the area...
...been to Belfast, and I've been to New Haven, and there's about ten million times more romance and mystery about the former. The average citizen's chance of being shot is better in New Haven. Belfast has one of the lowest O.D.C. rates in Western Europe (O.D.C. being an acronym for "ordinary, decent crime," as distinguished from political violence by the people here). Assuming you're not out on the streets draped in a Union Jack or the Irish tri-colors, or running guns for the IRA, the average American tourist is probably about as safe here...
...guardians of Kosovo?s refugees, NATO are a bunch of deadbeats, according to the U.N. An official in charge of coordinating refugee relief efforts tore into the Western alliance Friday, hoping to shame it into handing over desperately needed cash to resettle the half million returned refugees. "The international community spent billions of dollars on a military campaign that was intended to pave the way for the return of refugees," said Soren Jessen-Petersen, the U.N. assistant high commissioner for refugees. "It is a pity they are not prepared to spend what we have asked for, to see the refugees...