Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how vivid the danger lurking deep within its corridors, a game like Quake would be little more than a feast for the eye without equally rich 3-D grunts and groans. That's where Bose's top speakers come in handy: the amplifier and two ear-thrashing cubes will replace that grating, tin-can PC sound with a digital symphony. ($699; Bose...
...Jobs and Internships Fair, and it doesn't take genius to understand the appeal. For would-be writers, jobs in the media are especially seductive. After spending years perfecting our use of words, we see the prospect of finally getting a chance to shine. But there is a certain danger in working in the media. Despite their alluring power, words can also escape your control. As a painful experience last August taught me, you can get yourself into trouble you would never imagine...
Words, once released into print, can change people's thoughts and opinions forever, and they can never be taken back. Journalism is powerful because it has the potential to be dangerous, and one of the most critical sensitivities a journalist can have is an awareness of that horrifying potential. No media fair can adequately prepare us for that danger. But as one who tried her best to pick up the feathers, I have to tell you to be careful, and always, always, watch what...
...second time Bhutto has suffered such an ignominious removal--the military backed her expulsion in 1990. It is also the third time in six years a Pakistani Prime Minister has been kicked out in midterm. While the move is ominous for the fate of democracy, Leghari had other danger signals to consider. In the past few weeks, protests by the country's main Islamic party had torn into major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The cry in the streets was corruption. And in Pakistan the figure most often paired with that word is Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's husband...
Lebed failed to notice the approaching danger and even dug his own grave by starting quarrels with major political figures like Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov and presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais. And although Yeltsin has had trouble with his health and with control of the Kremlin, firing Lebed was not risky, since most of the Kremlin's leading figures wanted him out anyway. Yeltsin planned the coming and going of Lebed from the very beginning, and Lebed naively gave him a helping hand. SANDER ANTEN Amsterdam Via E-mail...