Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeks to overthrow the Saudi royal family and drive U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia, away from its holy cities, Mecca and Medina. Bin Laden is nearly everyone's favorite suspect this time too--largely because he is the obvious one. Newsday reported on Sunday that a relatively low-level associate of bin Laden may have been identified by an embassy guard as having been in the truck carrying the bomb in Nairobi. Clinton aides are looking at contingency plans for covert operations to capture bin Laden from his reputed high-tech lair deep inside Afghanistan...
MOSCOW: What's Boris Yeltsin so mad about? TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Paul Quinn-Judge says the Russian president's tirade over U.S. missile strikes is equal parts bluster, envy and a little dog-wagging of his own. "On one level, he feels personally slighted about being out of the loop on the attack," says Quinn-Judge. "But like Clinton, Yeltsin has a domestic scandal of his own to contend with: his devaluation of the ruble. With the parliament calling for his resignation, a little burst of nationalist fury does not go amiss...
...parents separation. Yet toward the end of the film, it is Joey who begins to understand the folly of his misguided enthusiasm and lack of direction while at the same time Sissel seems to regress even further away from the mature relationship she once comprehended on a much higher level than her lover. Simply put, the character development is a study in contrast that provides a most satisfying experience for the viewer...
...there is hope. Each of the writers has been chosen for this collection, and each of their stories is, on some level, a success story by virtue of that selection. While not every story has a happy ending or even a resolution, each one points to a struggle to keep writing, a decision not to give up. New York, therefore, becomes through the essays a city of hope that overcomes loneliness; Caitlin Cheevy, looking down at her newborn baby, writes: "Never have I felt a sweeter love." Her emotion redeems her city and breaks through the detachment of New York...
...Floerchinger, the new water polo coach, is the former head coach from Lehman College. Floerchinger, 26, has coached on the international level for the U.S. College, U.S. Club and New Zealand national teams...