Word: missions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chastened by the reception of a certain red-lettered heroine's heartrending tale, the director of such wide eyed spiritual triumphs as The Mission and City of God--just look at those titles--has gone blackly cynic. In Roland Joffe's twist-filled but flawed new feature, religion serves only to provide a respectable front for the depraved or to highlight its golly-gee practitioners' cluelessness. But that's not the main thrust: In this noir comedy, lust, greed, jealousy, betrayal and just generally people's worst sides stand in mocking contrast to any form of decency (i.e. gullibility...
...they were going to use when they got home. She was holding a shopping bag from the Gap, and he was looking especially dapper in clothes that could have only come from Structure--clearly someone had made a successful trip to Harvard Square. I was charged with a different mission, and I embraced it. I was getting...
...pulled off from the curb, leaving the Dudley Co-op as my final Harvardian obstacle, I ran down the length of the bus and was free! I sat down behind the driver, who thought me fairly strange. I didn't care. A man with a mission rarely does...
...NATO assessment last year determined it would take up to 200,000 allied troops to invade and secure Kosovo. Both Cohen and General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were leery of any such mission, especially when its goals seemed vague. Now it is obvious that NATO could not have built up such a force before Milosevic had gobbled up Kosovo. And sending in ground forces in the face of Serb resistance would be bloody. Mountainous Balkan terrain makes for tougher fighting than Iraq's wide open deserts; Serbs would hold the high ground, including passes...
...that, Bill Clinton counsels patience "if we expect to see this mission through." NATO vows that the bombing will go on, day after day, week after week, until Milosevic cries uncle. But what if, having gobbled up Kosovo, he simply stops fighting and declares victory instead? How will patience cope with that...