Word: 5th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look at the 5th century conqueror spends scarcely one minute examining that historic event. Compensation comes in the details offered about Attila's life, like the fact that as an expression of his humility, he ate only from wooden bowls rather than kingly pewter...
...ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been threatened in international waters while intercepting illegal oil shipments from Iraq, and each incident has an Iranian connection, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Vice Admiral Thomas Fargo, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, told AP that the incidents, combined with the smugglers' use of Iranian waters, indicate that the Iraqi oil ring is "centrally controlled within Iran." Iraq must sell the illicit oil on the cheap, but it desperately needs the infusion of cash, while Iran reaps large profits from the oil upon...
Head Coach: Don Vaughn, 5th season...
...claim about blame--it holds us accountable for Adam's sin even before we've done anything wrong--but it is also a claim about human nature; it says we are inclined to do wrong, that we have a hereditary dark side. As St. Augustine put it in the 5th century A.D.: After Adam sinned, our "soiled" and "corrupt" nature was "already present in the seed from which we were to spring...
Time after time, Clinton failed to give the compelling moral arguments behind his policies, but Dole never delivered the knockout punch. Unless I missed something last night, come November 5th, Bob Dole will still be just...