Word: centrals
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Wilson brings to Harvard more than 20 years of volleyball expertise. His involvement with college volleyball began as a middle blocker for a club team at Central Missouri State University...
...take a miracle. The White House hopes that U.N. ambassador-designate Richard Holbrooke is the master chef who can pull it off. Now in Belgrade, on Wednesday Holbrooke will try to arm-twist President Slobodan Milosevic into signing the troubled peace deal. "Milosevic is hanging tough," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But the deal is ultimately in his interests, and that may lead him eventually to sign." That and Holbrooke's powers of persuasion: The U.S. envoy brandished the threat of air strikes to bully Milosevic into the Dayton Accords in 1995 and a Kosovo cease-fire...
...Hawkes and her co-workers conclude about the Hadza, "it is women's foraging, not men's hunting, that differentially affects their own families' nutritional welfare." If the grandma hypothesis holds up, we may have to conclude that the male-female pair bond was not quite so central to human survival as the evolutionary psychologists assume. The British anthropologist Chris Knight--who is, incidentally, male--suggests that alliances among females may have been more important in shaping the political economy of Paleolithic peoples...
...life in general and show business in particular, "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and, worse, has ever since refused to register shame or apology for so doing. To them, precisely because he was the most powerful individual to choose this course, he remains the central symbolic figure in the cautionary political fable they concocted around those long-ago events. Because it reads so simply--good vs. bad, tight-lipped political martyrs vs. opportunistic informers--this view has been unquestioningly accepted by most Americans. It taps into two of their salient qualities: their sense of fair...
...dark, savage thriller that goes for the jugular and attempts to show the staggering level of atrocity of which humanity is capable. The central character is Tom Wells (Nicolas Cage), a highly trained private investigator who handles the dirt of the rich and famous. At the beginning, we sec Wells working a surveillance case for a senator before he's called to the home of Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter), the well--endowed widow of a recently deceased industrial tycoon. Rich folk always seem to have eccentric little possessions, and Mr. Christian left behind a humdinger in his safe--an eight...