Word: linked
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Ruff is the link between the two groups. The bookish lawyer is a classic Clinton White House counsel--upright, well respected. Ruff took the job no one else wanted, and Clinton embraced Ruff chiefly because he's a solid, by-the-book lawyer whose advice is regarded around town as some of Washington's best and whose political motives cannot be questioned...
...real signs of war fever disturb the bedraggled city. People say the army has been moving its tanks and guns into the desert, to remote desert bivouacs where they hope U.S. missiles cannot find them. Command centers near the highway to Jordan, the only land link out of this isolated country, have been abandoned as generals disperse to makeshift headquarters. Antiaircraft guns ring the airport where U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan landed for the talks that Iraqis dare to hope will forestall the bombs. "We want him to bring peace," says a shopkeeper watching the babies' coffins...
...Another link was Zdenek Mlynar, who was one of the principal architects of the Prague Spring along with Dubcek. By one of history's most incredible coincidences, he had attended Moscow State University in the 1950s and shared a dorm room there with a young Russian named Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Apparently the two kept in touch, and Gorbachev was intrigued with what his former roommate was doing to reform communism in Prague. Gorbachev later said that Dubcek's reforms served as the main ideological pillars for his perestroika. When Gorbachev's spokesman Gennady Gerasimov was asked at a press conference...
...third casual link came from the non-communist forces that gained ascendancy during the Soviet democratization period of 1988-89, who agreed with the reform communists in their admiration for the Prague Spring and its principles. The dissident Nobel Prize-winning physicist Andrei Sakharov was the leader of this democratic movement. He wrote in his memoirs that the crushing of the Prague Spring was one of the most tragic events of Russia's history, "but fire burned beneath the ashes," he concluded...
When asked why game shows are irresistible to millions of viewers, Ilagan is eager to philosophize. "It's one of those unique forms of TV that really hooks the audience in," he says. "You're talking the average Joe and putting him on TV, creating a closer link between audience and show." Or perhaps it's simply the undefinable thrill of watching Evelyn from Tulsa drop her "Plinko" chip and following its bouncing descent towards the $5,000 slot...