Word: cold
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Reagan is also currently getting overdue credit for his part in winning the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union was such a surprise and our attention was diverted so quickly to new worries like the Gulf War and economic recession that Americans never really had a chance to crown the victors. Now they do. Reagan may finally be receiving the applause he deserves for his greatest offscreen victory--sending Marxism-Leninism, in his words, to "the ash-heap of history...
Perhaps most importantly though, in the messy world of today's politics, the Reagan way just seems more appealing. Like all nostalgia, immortalizing Reagan enables us to escape the present by reminiscing about a simpler, roiser past. As the post-Cold War world becomes more complex, isn't it touching to reminisce about our Oval Office John Wayne standing tall in the saddle against the Evil Empire...
...same week that Israel?s once-feared Mossad came off like Keystone Spooks in a bungled bugging in Switzerland, the Times report detailing debate over a covert operation still in its planning stages underlined the declining fortunes of the elite intelligence services that had seemed so formidable in the Cold...
There is a fairly large selection of both hot and cold tapas, ranging in price from a mere $1 to $5. Few of the more interesting ones are completely vegetarian; many contain cheese or seafood as well as meat. The table tried four: a special of pork tenderloin on a bed of white beans, garbanzos, and sauted mushrooms; scallops and squid with a puff pastry shell in squid-ink sauce; baby octopus vinaigrette and an enlightened burrito filled with shrimp, lobster, and spinach in red pepper sauce...
...Woburn resident reported that while attending a funeral gathering on Bolton Street, a man threw a cold drink at him, and then proceeded to kick him in the ribs and punch him repeatedly in the mouth...