Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dull red walls of the Kremlin loom large in the center of Moscow as a reminder of this country's powerful Russian past. Yet as one walks away from the Kremlin and down Tverskaya Boulevard--Moscow's main drag--one wonders whether the Kremlin still serves its original purpose. Built as a fortress in the 1150s, it was supposed to protect Moscow from foreign invasion...
...Today in Moscow, however, the foreign invasion is in full swing. American consumerism is fast consuming Moscow's population. The perestroika-era novelty of Gorbachev sneaking McDonald's and Pepsi through the gates to a hungry population has begot a deluge of American products. Today, the area behind the Kremlin looks quite a bit like Times Square. Sanyo and Coca-Cola signs light up the night sky. Russians chow down at a McDonald's only a few blocks from the Kremlin, while a Pizza Hut a few blocks further down Tverskaya Boulevard faces a statue of Pushkin, Russia's national...
However Mike Tyson felt as his face hit the canvas against Buster Douglas, however the 1954 Yankees felt once the Indians clinched the American League title, however Napoleon surely felt after failing to take Moscow, the members of the Harvard women's basketball team must have felt last Saturday night...
...MOSCOW: Has Boris Yeltsin been hitting the vodka too hard again? Emerging from under a low profile for a meeting with First Deputy premier Anatoly Chubais, the Russian leader made a statement on the Iraq crisis that was surprisingly Kruschev-esque. "By his actions," Yeltsin warned, "Clinton might run into a world war. He is acting too loudly ... We want to make it clear to Clinton that we do not agree with such a policy...
...Pentagon has withdrawn forces from southern Florida because it no longer considers the island a military threat. But the report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian MiG-29 jets, which Moscow delivered during the cold war, that are equipped to carry such theoretical weaponry. Senior Pentagon officers, who hope Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this week will help ease tensions, privately favor normalizing relations with Havana. They fear that the report will only throw red meat to congressional and Cuban...