Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gore said the best way to foster democratic reform and curb human rights abuses in China is by building close political and economic ties rather than containment...
...most commercially successful of them--from Monica Lewinsky's bathetic memoir Monica's Story to the artful partisanship of Jeffrey Toobin's A Vast Conspiracy--are markedly one-sided in recounting the struggle between Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr. The accepted narrative, in brief: an insensitive but all too human Chief Executive is beset by a sex-obsessed religious zealot masquerading as an upholder of the rule of law. To judge by sales, this version of events has many adherents among book buyers, which means it's good marketing. But it's also bad history, ripe for revisionism...
...friend had introduced Chen to the snakeheads--Chinese gangsters who run human smuggling syndicates with links to Chinese communities all over the world. Shifty, violent men with a liking for gold watches and rings the size of plumbing fixtures, the snakeheads have a ruthless reputation throughout Fujian. Chen was scared of them, but he was also exhilarated at the prospect of going to the U.S. and earning "big money." (His name, village and some identifying details have been changed to protect him and his family.) For $37,000 the snakeheads promised to transport Chen to New York City. He didn...
...Sunday's Washington Post, the Clinton administration has recently made combating AIDS in developing countries a top federal priority, and, for the first time, has placed the battle against a disease under the aegis of the National Security Council. Treating AIDS as a security threat rather than a human rights issue means more money and resources - the federal budget for battling AIDS abroad has flatlined at about $125 million over the past seven years; the administration wants to double that amount...
...disenfranchised poor population with troves of orphans and broken families. AIDS, the report predicts, will tear through sub-Saharan Africa over the next decade and then through the nations of the former Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, devastating masses and exposing them to exploitation and revolutionary forces. Human rights groups estimate that a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa is already infected...