Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly in summer. So eventually the running around and explosions commence. As usual, the main things lost in the hubbub are wit and logic...
...Israel's nuclear arsenal has proved enough to deter its old enemies from new aggression. But an Israeli official admits that Tehran's development of longer-range missiles "is a big deal because the Iranians are not known to follow the same logic as some of our other neighbors." President Clinton worried aloud that the Iranian missile "could change the regional-stability dynamics in the Middle East." What that means, says Ian Lesser, an analyst with the Rand Corp., is that in a future crisis, such allies as Saudi Arabia and Turkey won't be eager to join...
...prosperity." One young historian argued that Nicholas was a statesman of almost supernatural insight, though he gave himself away when he went on to suggest that Rasputin--the Czarina's "spiritual adviser" whose scandalous reputation did so much to discredit the Czar--was given a raw deal. The guiding logic of the programs seemed to be that if the Bolsheviks hated Nicholas, he must have been a wonderful...
...math professor lives with his bright, loving 11-year-old son--a small boy who asks big questions about God and death. The father believes that everything can be measured, even the density of ice on the local pond. It will take a catastrophe to teach him that his logic has holes. But the episode's true poetry is in scenes of the boy's love for his father and aunt. God, we see, is in a child's easy embrace...
...need to take a hard look at the logic behind the theory of nuclear deterrence, questioning the premise that the fear of mutual mass destruction will discourage the use of nuclear weapons. The hateful leaders of India and Pakistan have shown us that no nation, including the U.S., should be allowed the privilege of destroying the world in the name of its own survival and beliefs--Hinduism, Islam, democracy or whatever. Nuclear disarmament for all is the most urgent agenda. Otherwise, the year 2000 will surely have a black dawn. RUJAYA ABHAKORN Passau, Germany...