Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...individual night-mares. Yet somehow, these two tortured souls managed to connect, and in a dark and painful novel, this friendship holds the only promise of hope and redemption. Among horrible acts of violence that portray humanity as empty and meaningless, their relationship offers a sort of salvation, a reason for mankind to fight against the cruel, soulless monsters who kidnapped Bob's little girl...
...often, any explanation for why a person does X or Y is couched in terms of normatives: "Well, because I should" or "Because it's important." But we can make no such excuses here. Toilet ball is easy and nonprestigious, but we love it all the same. The only reason to play is because you find some reward in doing so. There's no test at the end of the semester. Do as much of the reading as you feel like doing...
...survive Boris Yeltsin's latest putsch, but Russia's economy may wind up as "collateral damage." The surest sign of that Thursday was the ruble's resumption of its precipitous plunge, which the Yevgeny Primakov government, fired by Yeltsin on Wednesday, had managed to halt. And investors had good reason to be very afraid. "The IMF has made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will put together that legislation and pass...
Boris Yeltsin got up on the wrong side of bed Wednesday, so he fired his government for the third time in 18 months. "There's no logic or reason in this," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The decision to fire Yevgeny Primakov is based entirely on Yeltsin's emotions -- his irritation at the prime minister's independence and lack of deference to him, and Yeltsin's characteristic vindictiveness toward anyone who threatens to overshadow him." Of course it might also be intended as a reminder to the legislature, which has begun impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin...
...fate of Anna Friel's character, Hermia, to get rather lost in so-so productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sure enough, that's what happens in Michael Hoffman's adaptation, which oxymoronically manages to seem both leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...