Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...April 25 the Green Mountain State's legislators passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into "civil unions." Everyone involved knew there was a fire storm of protest coming; even some supporters of the bill took pains to insist that the state had not become the first in the land to license gay marriage. But it sure looked that way as civil-union partners were guaranteed a laundry list of rights--in areas of child custody, family leave, inheritance, insurance--traditionally reserved for the traditionally wed. "This is really very emotional," said gay-rights advocate Paula Ettelbrick after...
Meanwhile, south of the Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James...
...quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record of the Colombian military and the fact that many of its senior officers have colluded with right-wing paramilitaries who have been responsible for a number of massacres. Moreover, it is widely agreed that no side of the long-running civil war is free of associations with the drug lords. Peace talks between the government and the rebels appear to have broken down, and the largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has vowed to retaliate against the U.S. for its expanded involvement...
...Clinton Legacy: Clinton has fought hard to back the embattled government, and won bipartisan support for his plan. But a growing number of skeptics in his own party, and in the U.S. armed forces, believe the policy is unlikely to end either Colombia's civil war or narcotics traffic from the region...
...Disney and Microsoft to a lowly Internet service provider in Oshkosh, Wis., competitors began turning up the heat. Separately, press accounts of AOL's take-no-prisoners approach to its business partners made the Internet entrepreneurs seem as predatory as the cable guys. By this fall, even the American Civil Liberties Union was claiming that the new company could be dangerous...