Word: redness
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...tough to figure the exact moment when the button stopped tickling America's fancy. It wasn't during the Cold War: the giant red button was all that kept us from nuclear Armageddon. And in the age of the personal computer, the button was king. Mice, monitors, keyboards - buttons became a part of the fabric of our new, digital life...
...Full disclosure: Datamatch did have one glitch that night. She liked the Red Sox. Still, it was nice to finally meet a Sox fan who could be diplomatic towards my Yankees loyalty...
...Senate, as there is throughout the country, about the bonuses." Indeed, outrage was the theme of politician, pundit and President of the United States at each new revelation about the bonuses paid out of federal bailout money to AIG executives. There was so much outrage, in fact, that furious red overtook St. Patrick's green as the color of the day. But in the end, what were the outraged - as well as the hapless Geithner - going to do about it? (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...meandering Tigris River cuts Mosul into a larger, tamer "green" eastern section and a violent and insecure "red" west, the heart of the crisis. Graffiti lauding the Islamic army of Iraq, a hard-line Sunni group loosely affiliated with al-Qaeda, are prevalent in many parts of west Mosul. Iraqi security forces have crossed out some of the writing on the wall, but it's proving harder to erase the insurgents and their support base. "I knew AQ [al-Qaeda] was a problem, but I didn't know to what extent," says Lieut. Colonel Thomas W. Cipolla, battalion commander...
...historic Rome, on the Via Michelangelo Caetani, when the body of Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a Renault, looking as if he were asleep but the victim of a cruel murder. The five time premier of Italy had been kidnapped by the radicals of the Red Brigade and, after 54 days in captivity, executed with 11 gunshots to his heart. Moro had been playing a pivotal mediating role between Italy's Left and Right at a time of great tension between Moscow and Washington; he ended up a martyr of the Cold War. Giansanti's color photograph...