Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quincy House non-resident tutor and former librarian Julia S. Rubin '84 estimates the Qube's hulking collection to include at least 5,000 titles. Volumes range from old-school-classics like Batman to fresh-off-the press X-Men. Some are yellowed and faded, others shiny and prime for paper-cuttage; every character, from the Avengers to the X-Men, exercises powers even the most ambitious Harvard student can't access...
...meant some very difficult decisions. In some of the nations devastated by the crisis, there is a growing anti-U.S. backlash, and politicians such as Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad complain that Rubin, Greenspan and Summers--and their henchmen at the International Monetary Fund--have turned nations like Malaysia and Russia into leper colonies by isolating them from global capital and making life hellish in order to protect U.S. growth. The three admit they've made hard choices--and they'll even cop to some mistakes--but they still believe that a strong U.S. economy is the last, best...
...effort to appeal to the rather large number of women who do not look as though they have been put together by a stylist," says Bellafante. The programs include the new hit series Providence, which has caught on despite mixed reviews and one of the worst time slots in prime-time television, and a trio of original programs on the Lifetime channel. Bellafante, who also edits our Short Takes section, says viewers should expect future programs to capitalize on this trend...
...production from Chicago's Goodman Theatre that opens (with some minor cast changes) on Broadway this week, is a solid entrant in the big-Willy tradition. He's a charismatic man who, it's easy to imagine, might actually have been liked, even well liked, in his prime. Yet his lumbering frame seems constantly ready to tip over, a giant reduced to childlike confusion...
When YEVGENI PRIMAKOV became Prime Minister last September, he told a confidant that he would like to see BORIS BEREZOVSKY behind bars or permanently residing in another country. Berezovsky, one of the most influential and feared figures in the world of Russian business and politics, ignored the warnings. Now he is discovering how dangerous Primakov can be. A series of police raids, news leaks and crackdowns on major corporations owned or controlled by Berezovsky has left him fighting for his political life--and possibly his freedom. Press reports, leaked by the Federal Security Service, TIME was told, accuse Berezovsky...