Word: westernizes
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...courage, moral integrity and indomitable spirit set him apart from all other world leaders. His words and actions during this trip may not have appeased or pleased everyone. Yet when I listened to his words at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and saw his shaking hand touch the Western Wall, I knew this was a man of peace for people of all nationalities and faiths. PAULA DELFIORE Cranston...
...TIME for the accuracy and completeness of its report on Putin and his election as President of Russia [WORLD, April 3]. He is an extraordinary man. I was assigned to his international-relations committee and found him to be charming (yes), drolly humorous, enormously capable and totally appreciative of Western democratic values. I predict that he will sometimes exasperate and disappoint us, often disagree with us, but more often please us with his bold and clever actions to strengthen Russia and finally bring a just and compassionate balance between law and order there. Watch him carefully, and continue...
...week at the DOG'S CAMP in western North Carolina, our four-footed friends meet the New Age. For $900, you and your dog can go on retreat from Sept. 17 to 22 at a 4-H center in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 20 minutes from Asheville, share a cabin and take lessons in obedience, tracking, herding and agility. It requires discipline, but Catherine Mills, who runs a competition-obedience school and organizes the camp, says, "My whole philosophy is that learning should...
...criticized him for giving credence to discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa as a primarily heterosexual phenomenon that is destined to slash average life expectancy in his region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which administration officials considered so unfortunate that they tried to avoid releasing it to the media - even likened those warning against the views of dissident AIDS scientists to the repressive apartheid regime and book...
...expert in European studies, particularly economic development and gender, Pedersen is teaching History 10b: "Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From 1650 to the Present" this year...