Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doyle says Harvard's network administrators have nothing but cold feet, and the multicasting project will actually use little of their server space...
...Nazi-occupied France on a lone mission and brings him back to his British home field, his fragile plane's tail controls damaged by antiaircraft fire. He makes a ragged landing and climbs out of the cockpit, shaking. A mechanic asks, "How was it, Greg?" He answers, "It was cold...
Leonardo DiCaprio is fully dressed, shivering and gurgling in a large pool of icy-cold water and...wait a second, isn't this where we left off? Not quite. This time the 24-year-old Titanic star--the world's most famous young leading man--is submerged beneath a gushing waterfall in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, an immense forest reserve crawling with tigers, leopards, elephants and pythons. A doctor also warns of leeches: real ones, not the Hollywood type. But it's 1999, not 1997, and there's more than just dangerous wildlife surrounding DiCaprio these days...
Despite the intriguing characters, Baricco never manages to develop a plot or instill any warmth in the story. In attempting to sound poetic, the bizarre rhythm of the novel is instead cold and-self-consciously intellectual. The characters are presented in such an obscure way that they never seem real to the reader, and the entire story passes in a dream-like blur of images and events...
...Foreign policy was a lot easier during the Cold War, where U.S. interests were clearly defined by its conflict with the Soviet empire. "Since then, many countries have struggled to redefine their interest, but the challenge is greater for Washington because the U.S. is so much more powerful than anyone else," says Dowell. Don't expect any bold new directions from Clinton's speech. Aides have stressed that the President will primarily restate the case for U.S. involvement in distant conflicts. The world will have to wait for a mission statement that goes beyond putting out brush fires...