Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...balancing act between local and national agendas won't end until Feb. 19, when South Carolina holds its party primary...
Stanley Miller '52, a local entrepreneur and former member of Radcliffe College's Board of Trustees, died of lymphoma last Friday at his Newton home...
Perhaps the leading candidate to replace Schauble at the moment is Christian Wulff, 40, an attorney who is the party's deputy chairman. Wulff is telegenic and one of the leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name...
...Elian Gonzalez's emotional world as if with a sword, neither his Florida relatives nor his grandmothers gave any ground in their Wednesday encounter. If anything, the tension and fear surrounding Elian's brief reunion with his grannies at the home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of a local Catholic university, and the recriminations that followed, confirmed the extent to which the battle for custody over Elian has become a showdown between Havana and Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban government accused O'Laughlin of lying, cruelty and deceit in her handling of the encounter, while the Dominican...
...theology in Kirkland House, Egyptian pharaohs used to write over their predecessors' cartouches. Perhaps in response, in more modern times National Geographic magazine digitally moved a pyramid so the picture would fit on its front cover. Television has also been no stranger to image editing: Baseball stadiums sometimes replace local ads with national ones in the television coverage. But CBS' decision raises new questions of whether television can be trusted when what network executives think is "entertainment" might be what the average viewer takes as "news." When a program presents itself as fact, as the millennium coverage did--were there...