Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells the Chronicle, he tells New Hampshire, and South Carolina ?- and he can?t afford to be that fat a target for conservative Republicans." And that?s not the worst of it. This goof, says Carney, was particularly bad because it was McCain that made it. "McCain?s central appeal is that he doesn?t pander, doesn?t flip-flop, shoots straight and consequences be damned," he says. "Now some of that is gone, and he?s angered the right...
...American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery. Evolution is not a peripheral subject but the central organizing principle of all biological science. No one who has not read the Bible or the Bard can be considered educated in Western traditions; so no one ignorant of evolution can understand science...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, Lucille Ball, Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong and 26 others whirl around and around in an unending cycle. The spectacle is an art exhibition--"The Turn of the Century," a carousel adorned with 20th century pop and historical images--but you could be excused for mistaking it for a typical day's television programming. With more than a dozen biography programs feeding the audience's seemingly bottomless lust for lives, cable has likewise become a vast merry-go-round where the life stories of Roosevelts and Roseannes pop up constantly and with equal prominence...
...next?, you're thinking. Comedy Central? Actually, this month the network launched A Comic Life with a Steve Martin bio narrated by director Ivan...
...could end up in Manhattan. According to the Wall Street Journal, authorities are investigating whether some $200 million allegedly laundered through the Bank of New York was siphoned off IMF funds loaned to Russia to stave off its financial collapse. It?s happened before - in 1996, Russia?s own central bank (their Fed!) funneled $1.2 billion in IMF money to an offshore holding company, never to return - and if it?s happening again, the clues are everywhere...