Word: rightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of economic speed loop, where the centrifugal force spins off nothing but wealth and happiness. And launch parties. So up and off an elevator you go, melting into an unimaginably beautiful crowd. Every woman looks like a model; every man looks, well, Italian. This is an Internet party, right? What on earth could they be selling? A sign on the wall reminds you: this is the launch party for Beauty.com...
...There's a fierce debate raging right now in the Russian leadership over how to proceed in Chechnya," says Meier. "Putin needs to slow things down, drag them out so that the war's still an issue next spring, but the generals have boasted that Grozny will fall within days." And for Putin, planting Russia's flag in Grozny and declaring the operation over may be a way of getting out while the going's good...
...playing for a New York team: "I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing...
...that light, Washington wouldn't be warning its citizens unless there was a credible threat. And, of course, there may be more than one. Law enforcement officials across America have been briefed on the danger of homegrown right-wing terrorists acting out apocalyptic fantasies to coincide with the millennium. After all, the Oklahoma City attack had the U.S. media running profiles of the usual suspects from the Middle East in the hours before the arrest of Tim McVeigh...
...legal circles, few issues are thought to be much thornier than the separation of church and state. But Tuesday, a U.S. district judge in Cincinnati dove right into the thorn bush, declaring Cleveland's four-year-old voucher system illegal. Although the program will continue until a higher court makes its ruling, Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ruled that the voucher program - which allows families to send their children to private schools using public funds - is unconstitutional. Because most of the subsidized students attend religious schools, Oliver said, the vouchers provide taxpayer money for religious instruction. Ohio's attorney general vows...