Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former communist agent who told congressional investigators that Hiss transmitted government documents to him between...
...China but of the U.S. Lax security at national weapons labs virtually invited Beijing to pick their pockets. For years officials ignored complaints that the labs were wide open, and no Administration bothered to bolster their feeble protective measures. "On the security breaches," says Winston Lord, former U.S. ambassador to China, "I say, Shame...
Then there's the question of whether rules against technology sharing are even effective. The tech industry, not surprisingly, argues they often aren't. Current law requires chipmakers to submit applications to sell powerful microprocessors to countries (such as China and the former Soviet Union states) that are subject to highly restrictive export controls. But Intel argues that it's impossible to prevent the chips it sells to friendly countries from ending up in less friendly ones. "We make microprocessors in the millions each month and ship them to thousands of distributors all over the world, who aren't prevented...
Welcome to the one-hand-washes-the-other world of "Jim-Bob" Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted dictator of Indonesia, a country that is now a fuse in search of a match. An often violent election campaign leads up to voting on June 7 that could bring to power reformers long critical of Freeport...
...month before her nuptials to Prince Edward, SOPHIE RHYS-JONES received an unsolicited gift from the British tabloid the Sun: an 11-year-old topless photo of herself splashed across the paper's inside pages. The photo shows Rhys-Jones' former boss, a radio deejay, lifting her bikini top. Despite the unorthodox nature of the office high jinks, the two were apparently not romantically involved. Outraged reaction to the photo's publication came from the usual corners, such as Buckingham Palace, and curiously sanctimonious ones, such as rival tab the Mirror. The not entirely chagrined Sun published a full-page...