Word: crucially
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...QUINN-JUDGE joins TIME as Moscow bureau chief, a beat he is thoroughly familiar with, having spent six years there, from 1986 to 1992, as bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Along with a grounding in Russian language and history, he says, "the most crucial tool for understanding the place is a thorough knowledge of Monty Python. Only this enables you to fully grasp the whiplash-like changes, from comedy to tragedy and sobriety to surrealism." A nose for news helps: Quinn-Judge was already at work on a story about infighting in the Kremlin...
...race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week, it ended a feud that threatened not only to split the party but also to scuttle Democrats' chances of keeping the seat of retiring Senator Bennett Johnston. A Landrieu win is a crucial part of any scenario in which the Democrats retake the Senate...
...play at the level of excellence the soccer team has accompalished all season inevitably takes a toll on the players. Fortunately the 10-day break the Crimson is coming off came just in time, allowing it a much needed rest before what will be their most crucial series of matches in the season, beginning with what is predicted to be an intense night game at Princeton on today...
...bring Boggs, pinch-hitting, to the plate. Charlie Hayes forced another run across on a Ryan Klesko error. The road win was New York's seventh straight. Perhaps George Steinbrenner has traded Kenny Rogers' soul to some baseball god. The $20M man has started three post-season games, all crucial and on the road--and been bounced unceremoniously from each. The Yankees' record in those games? 3-0. -- Frank Pellegrini
...rise in special-interest news--are, of course, ways of trying to get people to pay attention to news again. But why have they become so inattentive? Many news executives argue that interest in news has declined mainly because the news is less interesting today--or at least less crucial to people's lives. For much of this century, the news was dominated by stories that had a direct, often life or death impact: the Great Depression in the '30s, World War II in the '40s, the cold war and threat of nuclear Armageddon in the '50s, civil unrest...