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...Cold War). Critics then scoffed at the viability of Star Wars. They are scoffing too at the new missile shield. The difference is this system is not only being tested but is also being demanded by a majority of the U.S. Congress, with the assent of the White House. The geopolitical implications may resurrect the cold war. Says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: "It could well lead to a new arms race...
...knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during the mid-'60s she spent teaching history at a small black college in Mississippi; her love affair with a charismatic music teacher named Eljay Reece; their estrangement when she became pregnant, and her anguished assent to his demands that their daughter be raised by him and among people who would accept her as one of them...
...ignorant of this history, and Miriam has grown weary of pretending that a wrenching experience in her past never happened and hiding the fact that she has been living "with half a heart." With her nest temporarily emptied thanks to summer camps, and with her husband's cautious assent, she decides to try to contact the daughter she once surrendered. This plan succeeds with surprising ease; her daughter has also decided to get in touch with Miriam...
...Coop, the response to the new competition seems to be going well. When asked if students were using the new price-matching service, Hendricks answered with energetic assent...
...official courtroom artists at the Unabomber trial, I sat only a few feet away from Kaczynski when he pleaded guilty. I could see his face as he answered each charge of murder with a crisp assent. Unseen by the gallery, he even laughed during a private exchange with an attorney as the charges were being read. I was chilled, not only by the tragic events that left anguished relatives, maimed victims and grieving widows in their wake but especially by the remorseless behavior of the man responsible. If those eyes weren't the eyes of "a sicko," then they belonged...