Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of social deviance and was merely a commodity in college. How do we handle guys like him? Coach Green has tried to provide an environment where they can succeed." Some, though, aren't so sure whether Green is enjoying a little short-term luck juggling a ticking time bomb. "Randy Moss has shown what everybody thought. He is an extremely talented player," Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson wrote recently in Dolphin Digest. "Whether or not he's going to be playing in this league three years from now, time will tell...
...Defense Casper Weinberger and Washington lawyer Lloyd Cutler. They tend to upstage the little-known people who are the subjects of Brokaw's strongest feelings. Still, who would not want to know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...
...Concerns of those counseling caution range from avoiding a precedent of cross-border political extradition to fear of destabilizing Chile. Then there's the case of the 1976 car bomb in Washington, D.C., that killed Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and American citizen Roni Moffit. "There's already strong circumstantial evidence that Pinochet ordered that attack, and there may be even more precise information in the classified documents," says Zagorin. "The U.S. government hasn't pursued Pinochet's involvement as aggressively as they might have." So, even if the former dictator is sent home by Britain next week...
...third bit of mischief: as soon as Annan received Saddam's letter, he announced that he would be returning U.N. humanitarian workers to Baghdad within a day. Doing so would effectively end the American threat, however "poised" for action the Administration claimed to be. It is one thing to bomb an enemy capital. It is another to bomb an enemy capital where U.N. humanitarian workers are flitting about doing their good works...
...gloat about our school without social condemnation. We can cheer for Harvard without coming off as arrogant or elitist. We can wear the crimson "H" on our sleeve, our hats or our shirts without feeling like a show-off or a tourist. Not only can we drop the "H-bomb" and admit to going here, but we can shout it until we're hoarse...