Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to get absorbed in our own affairs, especially during reading period, exam week and the like. Whatever our individual sources of tension may be--seminar papers, ill loved ones, cold sores--every one of us is suffering in our own way. The goal is to maintain civility and empathy through it all. Good luck with exams...
...This time, that world is not just New York (as in American Psycho) or Los Angeles (The Informers, Less Than Zero) but that of international celebrity, taking in the glitterati axis of New York-London-Paris which Woody Allen has visited recently, but more lightheartedly--in contrast, Ellis is cold, cold, cold...
Bill Clinton is in no hurry to clothe the emperor. The U.S. embargo on Cuba may be privately acknowledged as a cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
...bombers pounded Iraq with 280 American cruise missiles--almost as many as hit the country during the entire Gulf War in 1991. Night after night, waves of warplanes, including B-52s, F-14s, F-18s and British Tornadoes, joined in the attack. Even the B-1 bomber, a cold war relic that had never seen combat despite its $280 million-per-plane price tag, got in on the action. The first night of bombs, Pentagon officials said, disarmed Iraq's air-defense network, flattened its intelligence headquarters and destroyed barracks housing Saddam Hussein's special security forces. General Hugh Shelton...
...reminder that good technology does not have to be digital is L.L. Bean's "burrito bag," which we gave the kids for Hanukkah. It solves the age-old problem of being too hot or too cold in a sleeping bag by including a fold-out fleece liner. I want one for myself (hint to coffee-table-desiring wife...