Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this fragmented land, the narrator must cope with his fragmented household. "So broken was my father's family," he claims, "that it felt to me like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak...
...will to power is what has kept us on his side after all these years. His stumbling, brilliant performance, cramped by stomach flu, in last year's play-offs overwhelmed the opposition by sheer force of spirit. Last week his halftime speech to his team in Game 3 against Utah was, "Let's bury these guys and make them think about it." They routed the Jazz by 42 points. Without the benefit of a rival (imagine Ali without Frazier, Navratilova without Evert) and without innovating the game (Dr. J had already defined the dunk), Jordan became the greatest player...
...design. "I'm around him all the time, and what he has to put up with--media attention and people making demands of him and wanting him to be here, there and everywhere--he does a tremendous job. He's done a great thing with his image and really kept it pretty clean," says Bulls backup center Bill Wennington. "And he's so cute." Jordan is a vessel into which America can pour anything it wants. He's noble, charming, righteous and kind, not because he necessarily is but because we want him to be. And, yes, Bill, it helps...
...been using Windows 95 since the beginning, you can consider Windows 98 the reward for your patience," says the sunny Kip Crosby, who co-wrote The Windows 98 Bible (Peachpit Press). Lots of people already agree. When an early version of Windows 98 was sent to testers, "91% kept it on their machine because they felt it was more stable than Windows 95," reports Kim Akers, a Microsoft product manager...
...violating Mexican law. At the U.N. drug conference in New York City last week, Mexico's Foreign Secretary, ROSARIO GREEN, angrily told reporters that the Secretary of State claimed not to have been informed about the operation. The speculation at the drug conference was that Albright had been kept in the dark because she and Green became good friends when they served together at the U.N. The thinking is that if Albright had known about Casablanca, she might have objected...