Word: aegises
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These shots heard, and seen, around the world appeared under the aegis of the first global TV news company, Cable News Network. Contrary to the dictum of former U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill that "all politics is local," CNN demonstrated that politics can be planetary, that ordinary people can...
There are 3.7 million Soviet soldiers, sailors and air force personnel, down from 5 million, but still the largest military force in the world. Although some units have been pulled back into Russia as the Soviet empire has shrunk, many remain virtually marooned in far-flung outposts defending a U.S.S.R...
When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the...
Written with Sean Kelley and Sarah Durkee under the aegis of the American Sequel Society, this book mocks contemporary society's penchant for ridiculous follow-ups. More than 1,000,000 possible sequels inhabit these pages, most of them creations of the "Make Your Own Sequel" game given at the...
Teachout frowns at the charge of smugness. "We would agree that we're all more or less on the side of the angels," he says. "We all took a deep breath when the Berlin Wall fell. But then we turned to other things." Among them is whether the Vile Body...