Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican debate in New Hampshire last week was nothing if not mind-numbing. The relevance of the debate easily could have been lost on many viewers since arbitrary, sometimes trivial questions were asked. Millionaire publishing heir Steve Forbes, for instance, was asked the pressing question: What would he do about lost airline luggage if he became president...
...Judas' mind clenched down to the size of a pebble in his skull. But still he studied the new face for any further sign that this was Jesus, keeping his promise...
...memory of any stretch of years eventually resolves to a list of names, and one of the useful ways of recalling the past two millenniums is by listing the people who acquired great power. Muhammad, Catherine the Great, Marx, Gandhi, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mao come quickly to mind. There's no question that each of those figures changed the lives of millions and evoked responses from worship through hatred...
Suha Arafat had said she wanted visibility. But the First Lady of Palestine surely didn't have in mind her starring role in a new ad sponsored by the Washington-based Jewish Republican Coalition. Taking a swipe at U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, the TV spot shows Mrs. Clinton, on a recent trip to the West Bank, listening blank-faced to provocative anti-Israeli comments by Mrs. Arafat and then pecking her on the cheek. It's clear what the viewer is meant to think: Yech...
...Trade Organization's new "Millennium Round" of trade-liberalization talks. The symbolism of the trashed McDonald's looms large over the proceeding. As Bove stands at the barricades with thousands of demonstrators, most of them protesting against the WTO and everything it stands for, food is again on his mind...