Word: iiis
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...combat. But it's the worst thing he can do on a peacekeeping mission because an itchy trigger finger can spark civilian casualties, renewed warfare and national embarrassment. Since the cold war, which Russian and U.S. troops spent pacing in their garrisons awaiting World War III, military prowess has become a more subtle discipline. But subtlety has never been the U.S. military's strong suit, and no other modern military mission is as vexing to the Pentagon as peacekeeping...
...Stephano, Caliban and Sycorax for five moons of Uranus make sense, since the planet's other moons are mostly named for characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even a moonlet called Petit-Prince is defensible, since it orbits the asteroid Eugenia--and the son of Empress Eugenie and Napoleon III had that rather literal name...
...later years, when his genius had pried him from anonymity, Guinness played all manner of historical celebrities, from Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile that spreads and flits away" (John le Carre's words). That smile was tight, wary and tinged with a seer's sadness; it invited affection but repelled intimacy. Emerging from a Guinness film, spectators wondered, "Who was that unmasked...
...strongly in my father and what he wants to do with this country." The other two Gore children, meanwhile, have remained largely out of the spotlight and under the fierce protection of their parents. Sarah, 21, a Harvard senior, spent the summer studying art history in Russia. Albert III, the only one still living at home, is 17 and entering senior year at Washington's Sidwell Friends School...
...starring in Weekend at Bernie's III b) falling asleep during his own speech c) chillin' like a villain d) watching Autumn in New York...