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Announcing a new postcommunist military doctrine last week, Russia's security chiefs declared that they view no country or alliance as an enemy. At the same time, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev took a dim view of NATO's moving its flags and formations closer to the Russian border. " NATO is a military alliance," he said. "So what does it need new members for? Against whom is it aimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Nato Move East? | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Though he appeared to give a very dim appraisal of the current situation, Carter ended on an optimistic note...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: Carter Says Religious Freedom Endangered | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

...horrifyingly funny Lord Earl of Leete. Speaking coolly of more than a few unspeakable acts he has committed in order to maintain the integrity of the estate, the Earl declares his father "a nasty booby of a man who I hated ferociously," his mother "stupid," and his brother "decidedly dim." Broadbent's incomparably pompous English accent and straightfaced Monty-Pythonesque expression are perfect. But after the first few unemotional narrations and reenactments of his gruesome crimes, the Earl's understandably predictable stories, coupled with the unexciting cinematography, begin to verge on the tedious. Still, a few choice lines, expertly delivered...

Author: By Caralee E. Caplan, | Title: Short Films With Teeth | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...long time from now, when the year 1993 seems like a dim memory to some and like a fantasy to others, Giardi will be talked of as if he were a mythical figure, a sentinel of the Stadium. And then a golden-legged whipper snapper will rise up and challenge Giardi's mammoth accomplishments. Then the cycle will begin again...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: A Gridiron Hero: Charlie Brickley' 15 | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...only the beginning; the astronomers then had to put thousands of megabytes of data from their telescopes through a computer. The computer's job was to identify the unusual flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful event." After Griest and his colleagues had raised and ruled out phenomena that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twinkles in the Dark | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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