Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monica B. Shah '99, the secretary of Dharma, said she believed more people would have come outside to the quad if it had not been for the cold weather...
...local minister has mentioned Satan, but explanations rarely come neatly packaged in one word. "These are cold-blooded, evil children, and I don't care how bad that sounds," says Golden neighbor Brooks, whose daughter Jenna was wounded in the attack. Still, deep in its soul, Jonesboro is Bible country, and the residents choose to see divine providence in all things. Of the potentially fatal bullet that hit her daughter Candace but was deflected by a rib, Kim Porter says, "God held her the right way." Jonesboro has always counted its blessings. Here folks aim to forgive, as improbable...
Clinton apologized for slavery: "We were wrong in that." He apologized for the support Washington gave dictators and kleptocrats in the name of cold war anticommunism. He apologized for the failure of the "international community" to act quickly enough in the Rwandan genocide: "All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed in this unimaginable terror...
...publisher of independent Grove/Atlantic. "It has gone from being entrepreneurial, impresarial and academic to being run like a media business. I know I will lose money on half my front list, but those are my favorite books to publish." Significantly, Grove/Atlantic never had a No. 1 best seller until Cold Mountain, last year's breakout hit by first-time author Charles Frazier...
...hero of a David Mamet movie, of House of Games, Homicide, Oleanna or his newest, finest shell game, The Spanish Prisoner. In this diamond-hard, ice-cold thriller, young Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has developed a secret "process" worth billions to his company, whose chief (Ben Gazzara) is slow to give Joe credit and quick to worry about someone stealing the process. In the company Joe has an ally (Ricky Jay) and a No. 1 fan, a perkily sarcastic secretary (Rebecca Pidgeon). But Joe is tempted to confide in Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious fellow with a wise warning...