Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spare a thought for the thousands of FBI and security officials who guard the United States from terrorism. Not only will they spend New Year's Eve stone-cold sober and ready to roll at the chime of a beeper; the next day, and the next and the day after that they'll find themselves on point in a war that's hard to fight, let alone...
...noble attempt to inspire students to share their scholarly excitement, they have crushed great learning into mediocre bits, lest students choke on it. They have reduced great revelation to mere relevance. In the process, the great thinkers who might otherwise inspire men and women to greatness, become cold marble busts sitting mute while scores graduate without their sage teachings...
Regarding Berislav Marusic's opinion piece "The Croatian George Washington," (Opinion, Dec. 20) there are some rather simple answers to the question, "Why has there been such a cold response from the West [to the death of Croatian president Franjo Tudjman...
...ELECTION Cold, driven, hilarious Reese Witherspoon cares far too much about a school election. Matthew Broderick, the teacher supervising it, goes into sexual overdrive as he tries to cope with her machinations. And director Alexander Payne makes a dark, smart, sexy farce about the American ways of winning, losing and screwing...
TUNED IN If listening to MP3 music or Internet radio on your computer leaves you cold, SonicBox's imBand Remote Tuner, due out early next year for $50, may be the answer. A small transmitter hooks to your computer's USB port and wirelessly transmits a signal from your PC to any FM tuner in your house. You select which station you want to listen to with a remote control, shown below, that you can set by your side, whether you're lounging on the couch or soaking...