Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gesture being demanded of the IRA ?- a small-scale decommissioning of arms ?- is essentially symbolic, but that symbolism cuts to the core of the historic confrontation between loyalists who want the province to remain part of Britain and nationalists who believe they?re fighting an anti-colonial war. If the institutions agreed on last year were designed to shift the conflict from a paramilitary to a political track and foster a basis for coexistence between the republican Catholic and loyalist Protestant communities, then the breakdown over weapons signals the scale of that challenge. All that, of course...
...divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small parties of no influence. Such divisions may encourage Milosevic to pursue his trademark divide-and-rule politics. Then again, with the start of winter only a few months away, the citizens of a broken country may yet be galvanized into acting together against the leader that got them into this mess...
Still, I was going to have to change. Earlier this month in Michigan, Timothy Boomer was convicted under an 1897 statute for swearing very loudly--as many as 70 times--in hearing distance of small children, after he fell out of his canoe. Also, last week a Michigan court reinstated charges against a guy named Paul Hancock for cursing at his neighbor, Sharon Carnal. If I were Jay Leno, I'd make a joke about their last names...
...Pristina operation has given Russian military commanders a tremendous surge of confidence, and perhaps more important, it has helped the generals gain Yeltsin's ear. Russia's military hierarchy has little love for Yeltsin--one of his nicknames in the general staff is Pelmeni (a small dumpling), an apparent reference to his puffy features and tortured articulation. And the officers have little doubt that he will let them take the blame if the Pristina operation backfires. For the time being, though, an aggressive-sounding military has established a disturbingly close relationship with an ailing and mercurial President...
...last benefit is of no small importance to Mrs. Clinton, who is gearing up to run for one of New York's U.S. Senate seats and faced the possibility of being called as a witness in the Hubbell case. For Starr, the plea bargain allows him to leave the public stage with a certain level of vindication after having repeatedly pursued Hubbell on Clinton-related matters. It also sweetens somewhat the bitter taste of recent defeats -- the acquittal and mistrial of Susan McDougal and the mistrial of Juliet Hiatt Steele. Of course, it is unlikely to change the verdict...