Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret of a good dinner is that it creates time. Over a well-seasoned consomme or a ripe glass of wine, time becomes something to savor rather than to fight against. A cozy restaurant, or perhaps the common room to your kitchened suite, becomes the world for a few hours. Some music to fill the emptiness, some bread to soak up the sauce, and you will forget about the assignments due Monday. The conversation will flow. Aromas of basil and garlic will fill your senses. You will understand the benefits of social drinking...
...backdrop to the latest episodes of who sleeps with whom, there is also the pre-emptive self-outing of divorced Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe. Two weeks after voting for the bill restricting gay marriage, Kolbe, a Republican, went public with his homosexuality, which had been an open secret around Washington, to pre-empt an article that he knew was coming in the national gay magazine Advocate. Kolbe later won a primary race, but with well under the 80% margin he had enjoyed over the same candidate two years...
DIED. RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD, 72; Secret Service agent who threw himself over Lyndon Johnson for protection when President Kennedy was assassinated; of lung cancer; in Savannah, Georgia...
...more than three years, the White House and the U.S. computer industry have sat locked, eyeball to eyeball, in a seemingly intractable face-off over who will control the secret codes that protect our most sensitive communications. The government claimed to be working to protect us from nuke-carrying terrorists; the computer industry said it was championing the individual's right to privacy. Neither was telling the whole truth...
Eilenberg said he was unable to comment further because he and other 'Poonsters were expected at an intergalactic marshal arts tournament later that evening, and he needed to prepare his secret moves...