Word: dartboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somebody say repetitive stress injury (RSI)? It looks as though Harvard's decorators forgot about everyone's favorite epidemic in their rush to "think different." Dartboard likes a little postmodern color as much as the next person, but not when it means endangering our wrists. It won't be too long before someone figures out that typing on a keyboard the size of a napkin while standing in front of a terminal carrying a hefty backpack can't be good for the nervous system...
...Dartboard was under the impression that the tension between the United States and Russia ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the events of the last several weeks showed us that relations between the two nations are far from warm and fuzzy. The arrest of an U.S. State Department worker in Moscow quickly followed by the FBI's arrest of a Russian embassy employee seemed, to us, to be timed to coincide with the release of the latest movie in the James Bond series, "The World Is Not Enough." Cheri Leberknight, the alleged American spy, was apparently carrying...
...that Russia feels in the Western-dominated post Cold War world. Russia is frightened, almost mortally terrified. On a recent trip to China, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin responded to President Clinton's criticism of the war in Chechnya by touting the power of Russia's nuclear arsenal. To Dartboard, it brought to mind our own experience as a scared teenager. When we felt threatened, we too ran off to find our six foot, 250-pound football-playing buddy to back...
...failed to create a stable economy. The U.S. Senate has resolved to create an ICBM protective shield once it becomes technologically feasible. Such a shield would allow the United States to launch a nuclear strike with impunity, a prospect that is understandably frightening to the Russians, not to mention Dartboard...
...West would do well to mend its relations with Russia, not only because Dartboard does not want to enter the next century with a nuclear cloud hanging over our heads. It would truly be a tragedy if America won the first Cold War only to enter another a decade later. The second time, the West might...