Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weeramantry urged students to take advantage of ancient philosophy and intellectual works in a variety of cultures in order to further develop international law. He noted that many of the issues that are raised today in Western societies have been addressed in the past by non-Western cultures...
...Thatcher baby, and, notwithstanding John Major's brief and uninspired coda to Conservative rule, I lived in Thatcher's England for 12 years. The daughter of a greengrocer, Thatcher gave liberals on both sides of the Atlantic pause as the first working class female leader of a major Western power. She was mighty, once, of course. But less ambiguously, I would simply say that she was One Tough Lady...
...classless society." And yet she slashed education and research funding, pinching Oxford as tightly as the network of polytechnic schools that might have eased Britain's working classes into the new era. She was directly responsible for Britain's "brain drain"; at a time when the rest of the Western world was swelling with emigres from the East, scientists and scholars fled the country for America and Europe. In great part thanks to Thatcher, you can spend your sections gazing wistfully at your perfectly accented British teaching fellow...
...Still, the Serb pullout has -- at least for now -- stopped the terror campaign against Kosovar civilians, and may allow refugees to return to their homes as winter looms. "The Serb withdrawal has to be counted as a victory for Western pressure," says Calabresi. "Even if it's only a temporary...
...were rooted in just a few big cities. This week a confluence of events led us to re-examine the issue of gay life to determine how and to what extent sentiments have changed. Senior writer Steve Lopez visited Laramie, Wyo., to determine how attitudes in the small Western town may have contributed to the robbery and fatal beating of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student. "There are no more bigots per capita in Laramie than in New York City," says Lopez. "But in such a small town, I found there are few places where...