Word: hand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...morning of April 10, 1969, when police went into University Hall to remove demonstrators, Fallows stood in Harvard Yard with a reporter's notebook in hand, uncharacteristically pinch-hitting as a reporter from his executive position...
...Chinese friend would not budge. The options on the dinner table were 1) conspiracy--which, after all, answers human nature's need to blame a hidden hand, a deeper complexity of cause, and 2) stupidity, that great but underappreciated presence in human history...
...other hand, she unaffectedly loves her family life. As she puts it, "You don't act better in a $20 million picture than you do in a $2 million one. The only thing that informs the acting is your life. My life has taken huge changes and shifts. And if I come back out of it and do a good performance, I have to think, really, that I wouldn't have done this performance 10 years...
...last year for a Q&A column, and all I said was "You're about to marry some journalist guy, right?" and she hung up on me. Imagine if I had got to "So, have you slept with the President?" If it were up to me, Stone would hand over everything but her butter knives and toenail clippers...
...fact, for the Chinese government, 1999 is a year that has to be handled with circumspection. On the one hand, many social challenges--rising unemployment and criminality, ethnic strife--need to be managed. On the other hand, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the June 4 episode in Tiananmen and the 50th anniniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. If anything goes wrong, China's hard-won stability may be upset. Although the Chinese government has insisted on the political settlement of the Kosovo issue and opposed military intervention, it has provided Yugoslavia with only moral support...