Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear here. Though I believe the lack of council involvement in politics reveals the uglier flaw of the institution (its lack of power), I believe the council still works best when it works without politics. We had no more power when we were political than we do now. Back then we just used to divert everyone's attention from that fact by inflaming people on either side of a controversial issue whose national or international outcome we had no ability to affect...
...original moral theme with enough subtlety so that the film does not end in the typical Hollywood way, with the main character summing up the importance of the film in an ostensibly stirring speech. It also take a renegade view towards violence. The director, Robert Benigni, makes it clear that people are about to die and spares us the gore. As a result, Benigni creates more sympathy for their pain than the desensitizing violence of Hollywood murders...
Sullivan's latest novel, Love Undetectable, is born from this revolution in AIDS treatment. Sullivan tells us of his renaissance--his tacit preparation for death, then his difficult readjustment to life. Sullivan makes it clear that along with the euphoria that followed the realization that he was going to live came a surprising anticlimax. It seemed that life was most precious when it was about to end. As his viral load of AIDS plummeted, Sullivan's relief was countered by an unexpected banality. And so, Love Undetectable is divided into three essays that explore the spectrum of thoughts that germinated...
...mouse waiting game in Iraq continues. At a press briefing on Friday Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made it clear that "the military option remains on the table" if Saddam Hussein continues to impede U.N. weapons investigators. "Don't be too lulled by the holidays," says TIME U.N. Correspondent William Dowell. "The next week and a half will be tense.Expect an uptick in inspections...
...waiting for either a clear incident or a clear pattern of non-cooperation. "There is no indication of a massive U.S. attack at the moment," says Dowell, "but a surgical air strike could occur at any time if it were warranted." If the U.S. were to push the button the most likely targets would be Iraqi communications and military units. The real source of contention -- biological weapons lab -- would probably not be hit. "The equipment in such labs is dual purpose," says Dowell. "Unless the facilities are turned around for military use, they are used to produce harmless civilian products...