Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American officials now point to this resolution as the moment when the humanitarian mission began to turn into a mini-war against Aidid. But at the time, they thought he posed a serious threat and could be contained most efficiently by military means. As late as Aug. 10, Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., wrote that "failure to take action ((against Aidid)) would have signaled to other clan leaders that the U.N. is not serious" and called those who took a contrary view "advocates of appeasement." This view changed in part because Aidid proved much harder to run down...
...Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home. At the same time, impoverished lands like Somalia, with a scant sense of nationhood, remain just as prey to pandemonium as they have been since the mini-Lenins who held them together acquired a fatal bad name. Such primitive sorts of emergencies call on the world's conscience with electronic immediacy. The trouble is, too often they get primitive answers...
...attempt to expand its share of the quick-fix chocolate market, Hershey, maker of the Kiss, unveiled the Hug this summer. Officially described as "mini Hershey's Kisses hugged by white chocolate," Hugs look like Kisses with brown and white stripes...
After Yale opened the season without star tailback Keith Price and then lost to Yale 12-3 in the opener, most people wrote the Bulldogs off. But behind Mills and a rejuvenated passing game, Yale is starting to pile up the points while Harvard seems to be in a mini-slump. Harvard's matchup against Holy Cross this weekend provides the best test so far of what fans can expect to see in The Game on November...
...that wistful mini-epiphany occurred as I watched Andrew McCarthy and Rosalind Chao trying to play college students during one of the eight flashbacks in "The Joy Luck Club." They looked ancient. At least 35. Rosalind (of AfterM*A*S*H fame--she played Klinger's Korean wife) had age spots. And Andrew, Andrew just looked ravaged...