Word: reigns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tone for the year was set. Remember when crazy Communist Gennadi Zyuganov was way up in the polls in Russia? Everyone was worried about that. So Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a bloodless election. In Austria, that scary Jorg Haider gives up leadership of the ironically named Freedom Party. We didn't even drop any bombs on Iraq this year...
...VLADIMIR KRAMNIK In the chess world it's flattering to be known as Supernerd, and that is what they call the man who ended fellow Russian and former mentor Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign as world champ. Not a sport, you say? Kramnik, 25, quit smoking and dropped 20 lbs. to prep for the match...
...throughout his reign as governor of Texas, he has established a reputation for straight talk...
...have been aware of what, exactly, the whole year 2000 extravaganza was commemorating. If you believe their academic jargon, after all, we've just completed two thousand years of the "Common Era"--which apparently took over when the Uncommon Era ran out of gas midway through the reign of Caesar Augustus...
...know it. The wretched of America will be turned out in the snow on Christmas eve. Bloated middle-aged white men will ride about the town on the backs of blacks and Hispanics, as if on the backs of burros; back-alley coathangers will return women to the reign of an American Taliban. (In the privacy of their own minds, most conservatives, I suspect, believe that as a matter of practical politics and social consensus, it would not be worth setting off a second American civil war by trying to overturn Roe V. Wade...