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Just take the great martial powers of modern times: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, Japan, China and Israel. The age of America's expansion in the 19th century was marked by the low-tech coffeepot that was left on the fire until the brew inside had thickened into a blackish acid just right for tanning buffalo hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Affair, should be dazzling. So many of the pieces are in place--first-rate actors, a great wartime love story, a seasoned director (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire). But the inconsistently inspired director falters here, and what should percolate into a fine cinematic brew instead comes out as a disappointingly sludgy ode to what might have been a great work...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coldness Overwhelms Romance, Strong Acting in Affair | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Gore and Jones sampled the alcoholic brew before the play and were quite drunk by the time the curtain rose...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...Adding to the explosive brew are a number of Jewish extremists, who in their efforts to begin the rebuilding of the temple have been plotting to blow up Al Aqsa and the neighboring Dome of the Rock. Now, Israeli authorities fear a millennial convergence between the messianic visions of some evangelical Christian groups and those Jewish extremists. "Israeli police are most worried about Christian end-timers who believe that before Christ can return there has to be Armageddon," says Beyer. "Their intelligence suggests that some groups want to hasten the apocalypse by blowing up the Islamic holy sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem's Cops Play Apocalypse Busters | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...intimate body part. There are lists of answers to "empowering" questions ("If your vagina could talk, what would it say?") and harrowing first-person accounts of sexual abuse; diatribes against gynecological exams and reveries about genital hair. It's enough to make you want to go home, grab a brew and watch Monday Night Football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Necessary Targets | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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