Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington and at NATO talk of making Kosovo into an allied "protectorate" that would require Western troops to escort the Kosovars back and stand guard inside Kosovo's borders for years to come. Yet any new political arrangement butts up against the fact that Milosevic has captured the kingdom. "As much as we wish we could stop him in his tracks," says a senior NATO diplomat, "it's obvious there will have to be an element of rollback in our future plans...
Krishna will be travelling to London this summer to work for Charter 88, a group advocating for constitutional reform and a bill of rights in the United Kingdom...
...roamed the countryside in search of wild beasts. They shot those beasts. But in this age of political correctness, the noble sport of big game hunting has come under heavy fire. Critics call it inhumane, a frivolous waste of life, an affront to the sacred majesty of the animal kingdom. We call...
After conducting extensive research, the Centennial Fellowship honored scholars from around the globe. In addition to the United States, recipients came from France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada...
...around his art. In the first half of his life, when he was in Italy, the Mecca of the aspiring French painter, his pencil drawings caught the upper crust of foreigners there--the milords Anglais and their families on the Grand Tour, the French officials who ran Napoleon's kingdom in Italy, his fellow expatriate artists--with stylish brio and steely exactness. It is fascinating to see him shifting through different levels of notation--for example, between the subtle, continuous modeling of the face of Mrs. Charles Badham (1816) and the brisker, more linear treatment of her shawl and clothes...