Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a large group of my classmates. The occasion was a birthday, thus free from the officially-mandated nostalgia of Senior events, and it was far enough away from graduation that we could enjoy ourselves without the burdens of obligatory remembering. All of us were having a great time, eating and talking and laughing. But then a strange thing happened to me. I gazed down the long table, and in a flash of unexpected vision, I suddenly saw all of my friends old, very...
DENVER--On his 34th birthday, Steve Yzerman lit two candles--at the expense of Colorado goaltender Patrick...
That's why last weekend's NATO summit loomed as such a defining moment. When Clinton invited the 42 members and partners of NATO to Washington for a 50th birthday party, he envisaged a glittering capstone to his diplomatic legacy, grandly positioning the alliance as the bigger, broader 21st century mainstay of pan-European security. Instead he found himself presiding over a council of war. Those who feared that the decision to forgo ground troops from the start is dooming the allied cause set up a clamor for NATO to reconsider. A month after firing off its first cruise missiles...
...police disclosed that the handwritten diary they had found was drenched in Nazi-philia: phrases in German punctuating a year's worth of meticulous planning for the attack on Hitler's 110th birthday. There were also annotated maps of the school showing the best places to hide and where and when the most students gathered. Again and again, hatred for the jocks emerged in the writings. Said Sheriff Stone: "They wanted to do as much damage as they could possibly do, destroy as many children as they could and go out in flames." The remains of their preparations were evident...
...also, as we now know too well, Adolf Hitler's birthday. In the handwritten diary of one of the suspects, the anniversary, say the police, was clearly marked as a time to "rock and roll." Some members of Harris' and Klebold's clique, tagged in derision a few years before as the Trench Coat Mafia, had embraced enough Nazi mythology to spook their classmates. They reportedly wore swastikas on black shirts, spoke German in the halls, re-enacted World War II battles, played the most vicious video games, talked about whom they hated, whom they would like to kill. Harris...