Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their faith in the Soviet Union as the wave of the future. They never wavered in their support for human-rights causes, however. Signoret was most recently active on behalf of the "SOS- Racisme" antiracist movement in France. But as she put it last spring, "I have crossed the border into antiCommunism." Summing up her career, Author Max Gallo wrote last week, "She will remain the voice of a century that is ending, a century that she helped us live through with a throbbing heart, both sincere and deceived . . . always fighting, never abdicating...
...drugs. In fact, Christopher Ransom, an American drifter in Kyoto, has only one enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend who ODed near the Afghan border, and the presence of his Hollywood producer-director father. McInerney has an unfortunate penchant for Christian metaphors, and his story is heavy with meditations about redemption. A pity; the rest of the way he is as good as the pre-Garp John Irving. All McInerney needs, like his heroes...
Harvard Professor of Anthropology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky said that the Russian site in Sarazm, near the Afghanistan border, uncarthed another major urban center from the time of the Bronze...
...doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing." The tremors were also felt in McAllen and Brownsville, cities in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border...
...Nasif Jasim: "Our morale is excellent. Our supply lines are short. We have the clear military advantage." But behind the official optimism lies a palpable weariness with a war that has already taken the lives of perhaps 200,000 Iraqis and Iranians. Last week sporadic shelling continued along the border, and shipping sources said Iraqi planes had set fires at Iran's Kharg Island oil facility. Meanwhile, the latest peace effort by leaders of several Islamic nations collapsed after Iran reiterated its demand that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein be ousted. Iraq wants peace, but not at that price...