Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russians with rocks. It was one of three clashes overnight between peacekeepers and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, incidents which have become an almost daily occurrence as returning refugees seek vengeance on the province?s remaining Serbs and Russian peacekeepers, and the KLA presses its claim for political power and independence...
...nature served notice of its potency. For two dark, cool and eerie daytime minutes, the sun was a black hole in the sky as the moon shuttered parts of the earth from its rays. And hundreds of millions of people from England to India dropped everything to behold the power -? most evident by its absence -? of the star?s light. Even as thick cloud obscured many in Britain and Western Europe from a clear view of the last solar eclipse of the millennium, the masses crowding beaches, city streets and autobahns felt the awesome minutes of daytime darkness...
...profound spiritual moment. Muslims in Egypt stayed indoors on orders of their clergy, while in Gujarat, India, priests rang temple bells and sounded gongs to ward off evil spirits. However humans chose to make sense of it, the eclipse was a humbling reminder of nature?s power...
...this, his solo debut. "The Cuban Nat King Cole," as Cooder calls him, now savors a sweet, unexpected stardom. Says he: "I've been able to fix up my house a little." Ferrer is 72, and his voice lacks the strength it once had, but its power is undiminished. "I don't want the flowers to know of my life's torment," he sings in Spanish on Silencio. "If they knew of my suffering they would cry." That crack you hear in his voice? It's real...
...Biden, since Gore launched his campaign, some Senators have sensed that the V.P.'s team would strike against anyone sounding too many pro-Bradley notes. "Ninety-five percent of my colleagues here on the Democratic side believe that Bill Clinton has consciously turned over the reins of political power--the power of appointment, the power of pardon, the power relating to those things that affect partisan politics--to Al Gore," Biden says. "Whether that's true or not, and it appears to be, is not really the point. That's an unusual tactic, a 1940s tactic. Not retribution, but just...