Word: brief
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...charming, bright, very persuasive," explains Louis West, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles medical school. "He quickly wins people's trust and is uncannily adept at manipulating and conning people." David Jewell, whose former wife died in last week's fire, had a brief phone conversation with Koresh five years ago that left him in shock. "In 20 minutes, he took my entire Christian upbringing and put it in such a tailspin, I didn't know what I believed...
After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...
...brief sweet moment, it seemed that the Middle East peace talks scheduled to reconvene this week after a four-month hiatus might be more than another round in an interminable game. Israel agreed to deal directly with a major participant previously excluded from the table -- Faisal Husseini, the mastermind of the Palestinian delegation. Israel had objected to Husseini because he comes from East Jerusalem, an area the country contends is its own. It agreed to include him in hopes of boosting his relatively moderate position. But days before the talks were to begin, the main Arab participants asked...
Kicking off his campaign for a national vote of confidence, Boris Yeltsin stepped briskly before a restless, questioning crowd of students and instructors at the Moscow Aviation Institute last week. After a brief introduction, he jumped straight into his speech, speaking loudly and with no emotion. At one point, the head of the institute started chatting with colleagues sitting at a table behind Yeltsin, prompting the Russian President to interrupt his reading and glower at them. The mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends...
...After a brief and hopeful interlude, Americans seem to have contracted a fresh case of the jitters. "I was walking through the mall the other day, and I thought, Hey, I can buy all these things again," says Stuart Schwartz, a Los Angeles department-store clerk who recently spent two months on the unemployment rolls. "But then I thought, No, I'd rather hang on to the money...