Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says that although there is an interest in keeping master candidates' names out of the student press, there intent is not to keep people totally in the dark. McAfee points out that no one likes to be known as an "also-ran," especially someone who may be considered for another mastership in the future...
...says that although there is an interest inkeeping master candidates' names out of thestudent press, there is no intent to keep peopletotally in the dark. McAfee points out that no onelikes to be known as an "also-ran," especiallysomeone who may be considered for anothermastership in the future...
...Nasrin was a recent emigre who had twisted her schedule around to be at the event. Her story of brutality shocked me out of my fear of a middle seat. She'd fled here with her mother, leaving behind a father in prison and female relatives plunged into the Dark Ages. No one has misinformed her. Leno and the Feminist Majority look like her best chance to go home again...
...defense and attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends...
...conundrum of memory: Healthier to remember? Surely it is best sometimes to forget--though not to forget Kosovo now. Eventual obliviousness may equally free all sides from the hereditary obligation to hate. I wonder how Bill Clinton and the privileged American tribe will fare in the dark wood of the Balkans. What's happening there now amounts to a religious war between the future and the past. Beware: in that place, the past is a black hole...