Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Although Clinton often mentioned that India has many of the world's poor, he rarely saw them. So sanitized was the President's view that many Indians wondered whether he was too optimistic in his assessment of India's potential for progress and, by extension, for the prospect of improved Indo-U.S. relations. But Clinton has always been an optimist. What better trait for someone who wants to be a peacemaker...
...birthplace of Abraham. He wants to go to Damascus and visit the site of St. Paul's conversion. And he would like to go to Russia, but not without an invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church--which is not likely to be offered. This Pope, who has made much progress in Catholic-Jewish relations, has largely failed in his push for unity among Christians, as Orthodox churches rebuff him and Anglicans ordain women. Still, we can expect the man who helped dismantle communism to keep applying mortar to Christianity's schisms...
...reaction to the pair's joint remarks, widely misinterpreted as advocating a new, more restrictive position, was nonetheless useful in getting investors focused on the industry's progress since its bubble days. Then, biotechnologists assumed they could replace any defective gene and have a quick cure--an approach leading to that trail of failure. Today, they recognize that there's much more to it and are zeroing in on the most troublesome genes that can be replaced most easily. It's a whole new level of promise, one with more true believers. "This industry is real," says Larry Feinberg, chairman...
Tiepolo's Hound, in other words, is not a novel disguised as verse, with straightforward plot lines and a handy denouement. Its mood is ruminative rather than expository. Its progress is circular, a slow eddy of recurring images and motifs. At the center lie questions about culture and history and race and art that are not answered--no single answers could satisfy such questions--but set in rhythmical equilibrium...
...Kavita Srivastava, then 30, was a sociologist working in a government-supported program in Rajasthan state devoted to raising awareness among rural women about their legal and social rights. Srivastava, whose previous exposure to rural life had come entirely through train windows, believed she was making real progress toward improving the lives of Indian women--until a brutal act demonstrated how powerful the repressive force of misogyny can be. Bhanwari Devi, a local woman who was working with Srivastava, was gang-raped by upper-caste men after she tried to stop a Brahman child wedding. Though the rape was witnessed...