Word: m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safe yet [for them] to go back in," said Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. It is still unclear how the refugees will react to the cease-fire. Many will have to be persuaded to go home. Says Sanha Rusihti, an ethnic Albanian living in a camp in Macedonia: "I'm scared of going in, even if NATO soldiers escort me by the hand." But others are eager to return. Says Shkurte Gashi, 42, a refugee from western Kosovo: "I want to go back as soon as possible because I have nine members of my family there, and I want...
...children sink whenever I am petty, selfish, small. I am not supposed to be small. The day my oldest boy Carl beat (trounced) me in one-on-one--at last, killed his dad!--I fumed like a Nero, stalked off, refused to shake his hand. I'm surprised that I did not disappear through a crack in the playground...
...Reich pondered his speech, in which he would remind the recently derelict grads that the great economy isn't trickling down to everyone; that the vagaries of life--and the inevitable economic downturn--would try them again. Couldn't he be more optimistic on this, their big day? "I'm going to try," he said wanly...
...dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here, and she wants to hire me, and I'm going!" he said, to the roar of the crowd...
...they say they're not jealous of their Harvard counterparts. Indeed, they believe they have an advantage. "I'm turned around and could be headed toward Harvard," says reformed crack addict Howard James, 40. "But one turn for them--loss of a job, alcoholism--they could be coming to Pine Street...