Word: commandeer
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Students remembered Price as a teacher who had an amazing command of American politics, but also had an intense interest in students...
Twenty-thousand Americans, who are serving under NATO command, still remain in Bosnia...
...area in 1979 and threatened to overshadow President Clinton's visit to Australia last week. Fortunately, the probe crashed harmlessly in the South Pacific. But don't stop looking up yet: the earth's skies remain heavily laden with space junk. In the next 60 days, the U.S. Space Command estimates, four orbiting objects possibly large enough to survive re-entry will come tumbling down--two rocket bodies (one U.S., one Russian), a Russian payload platform and a Chinese satellite. Don't worry. So far, 16,000 human-made objects have re-entered the atmosphere in the nearly 40 years...
Under the suave direction of Jonathan Frakes, who also plays the Enterprise's second-in-command, the movie glides along with purpose and style. It also allows for a fun detour into a "holographic novel" set in the dear Deco days of Indiana Jones. But it's mainly a three-way tug of souls among Picard, Data and the queen of all the Borg. When she whispers to her onetime conquest Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself," she opens the movie up to the ache of memory--to a good man's second thoughts...
Mobutu remains the missing man in Zaire's latest crisis, out of sight and in questionable command of his nation. Even in the best of times, his absence would provoke perilous consequences for a country hovering on the threshold of economic collapse after 30 years of high-handed rule. But since September, when Zaire's eastern provinces fell under attack from local Tutsi rebels, Mobutu's uncertain condition--and continued hold on power--has been a matter of dire import. Three weeks ago, Le Monde reported that his prostate cancer had metastasized to his bones. But a guest whom Mobutu...