Word: wing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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WHAT HAPPENED WAS THIS by Josh Greenfeld (Carroll & Graf; $18.95). This zesty comic novel about a young man's climb from Catskills waiter to Hollywood film director who testifies against his left-wing friends during the McCarthy era could have been called What Makes Sammy...
Good luck to us all, I thought, in light of the escalating violence in the country. If we can bury the past, rectify decades of oppression, reclaim the lost generation, overcome the dangerous death throes of right-wing and left- wing extremism and create a real democracy in this country, there would be a great future for South Africa. A colossal task, with colossal challenges. But a start had been made by brave men, and I hoped and believed they would gain the support they deserved...
...caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot, whose six-month-old transition government has already been tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are sliding inexorably toward the temptation of a military coup...
Even if nothing happens with Iraq, the prospects for peace in Israel are now precarious. Attitudes, such as Faoud's, have shamed and tragically disappointed members of the Israeli left wing. Proponents of talk with Palestinians now feel they have no one to talk to. The right wing has one attitude about this: we told...
...addition's completed facade is in a strikingly different style than that of the Fogg museum itself, but according to Peter Nesbitt, curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the new wing will blend well with the original...