Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kurds, it was back to normal: Kurds fighting Kurds. Their quest for independence is a depressing tale of disasters, deceit, betrayals, exploitation and missed opportunities going back centuries, but the part that matters here began in 1991. Buoyed by Saddam's humiliating defeat in Kuwait that year, they rebelled, hoping at last to gain the separate homeland that has perpetually eluded more than 20 million ethnic Kurds spread across Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The revolt failed when Saddam turned his surviving corps of helicopter gunships on them, and they fled in despair into the northern mountains...
...room, where doctors determined that he was suffering a stroke. Soon after, they transferred him to the specialized stroke center at the University of Illinois, where he was given TPA. "Just three hours after receiving the medication, I was able to talk again," Bisla marvels. His walk is almost normal now, and he's seeing his own patients part time. "It feels so good to be able to smile and talk." he says. "Truly, this is a miracle drug...
...confident this is all a publicity stunt to sell magazines, and that things will return to normal next year. After all, this is Harvard, and since Harvard's name is the main reason most students come here, it has to remain...
...nifty trick: at $2.99 a pop for each roughly 90-page paperback book, and $1 more for the half-again-as-long conclusion, readers of the complete Green Mile will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume, mass-market paperback...
Political consultant Ed Rollins, in his account, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, of Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign [BOOK EXCERPT, Aug. 12], still seems not to appreciate how acceptable (and cost-effective) Perot's departure from "normal" campaigning was. And Perot's approach was so in tune with his assaults on wasteful government spending that he appeared to be setting the right example of how to run for President without spending exorbitant sums. Perot's political instincts were probably correct when he refused a Rollins-recommended campaign that would have cost $147 million. In view of Perot's military...