Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nightingale's Song cannily differentiates its five main characters, whose portraits have a novelistic fascination. North, for example: an authentic battlefield hero (brave, focused, cool under fire) who is also a hot dog and, suggests Timberg, perhaps unhinged in some surreal way that involves a dangerous mix of self-dramatization and stupidity. McCain: a raunchy screw-up and party boy who graduated near the bottom of his Annapolis class but magnificently rose to the occasion later. Poindexter: a brilliant student at the Naval Academy who suffered afterward, in Timberg's rendering, from a blind-side naivete about politics. McFarlane...
Omri's first friend to come to life is an Indian brave named Little Bear, who stands about four inches tall. Although Little Bear scolds Omri for playing with "magic he doesn't understand," the two quickly become friends. Little Bear teaches Omri about life in a Sioux Indian tribe...
...wonder, Should I feel extremely lucky to be alive, since I left my hometown of Sarajevo? I guess so. The Serbs can do whatever they please, whenever they please and to whomever they please. Taking 400 hostages is quite a task, and shooting down an American jet is crazily brave. The world is showing me that Serbia is the most powerful nation on earth, and I have managed to escape it and stay alive while it laughs in everybody's face. Bozana Benic Zagreb...
...does TIME's whole brave Balkans team, which last week also included correspondents Ed Barnes in Belgrade and Massimo Calabresi in Zagreb and reporter Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo. Calabresi, our chief Central European correspondent, just took over the post from James L. Graff, who has moved to the Chicago bureau after three years of dangerous assignments in Bosnia. At times during his tour of duty, Graff drove through sniper fire in an unarmored "soft" car, and once he was held hostage overnight by mujahedin, foreign Islamic soldiers working with Bosnian Muslims. Says Graff: "The thing to do is make sure...
...sick of politicians who safely relinquishthe reins of power and then get brave," said onealumnus, citing Ronald Reagan's recent withdrawalfrom the National Rifle Association. "What you'vegot to do is stand up for your principles when youhave a chance to do something about...