Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every cloud has a silver lining and the wrestlers were quickly able to redeem themselves. The very next day they returned to form with dominating efforts over Columbia, 25-13, and Umass-Lowell...
...comes a darker novel, Cloud Chamber (Scribners; 316 pages; $24). It is a sequel of sorts, though Rayona appears only at the end. She's still 15 and untroubled by romance, still living with her crusty Aunt Ida on the reservation in Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving...
...often, incidents surrounded by a mysterious cloud of latent anti-Semitic prevent the accuser from filing formal charges. In this case, while many facts may forever remain unclear, the motive behind Rosenbaum's murder is not: he was killed first and foremost because he was Jewish. This is all the more startling given the crime was perpetrated in the last decade of 20th century America and not in turn-of-the-century Europe...
...There is an ethical cloud hanging over this House that will only get darker in the days to come...
...first time, a few eyebrows are being raised," said Joe Scarborough, a House Republican from Florida. However, Gingrich's turnaround seems to have allayed the fears of the small but significant number of Republicans who were leery of re-electing him while he remained under an ethical cloud. Connecticut's Chris Shays, who had threatened to abstain unless the report was released, and New York's Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What remains, however, is the problem House Republicans feared still more: daily partisan warfare...