Word: wing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Pope's spring visit to the Holy Land seemed like ancient history, as did the unsuccessful mid-summer Camp David summit, when fighting erupted between Arabs and Israelis in the autumn. The spark: on Sept. 28 right-wing Israeli politician and former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, and Palestinians took great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled...
Which isn't to say that all of the shows were worthless. Television's The West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation...
...collapsed, and Israel and the Palestinians now coexist in a state of low-intensity warfare, even if their leaders continue to discuss the hypotheticals of peace. The breakdown that began with Camp David may have set the peace process back years, and Israel appears poised to elect another right-wing government committed to hitting the rewind button while Palestinian public opinion hardens against compromises with Israel. Moreover, the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington has traditionally relied to provide political cover for Arafat are themselves under increasing domestic pressure to distance themselves from Israel and the U.S. While a comprehensive...
...hundreds of millions every year taxing the narco-traffickers. But critics warn the expanded military commitment is simply drawing the U.S. into a quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record of the Colombian military and the fact that many of its senior officers have colluded with right-wing paramilitaries who have been responsible for a number of massacres. Moreover, it is widely agreed that no side of the long-running civil war is free of associations with the drug lords. Peace talks between the government and the rebels appear to have broken down, and the largest rebel group...
...Inclusion of a right-wing party in the government here angered other nations...