Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirrane plans to retire from his duties as rink manager at Bright Hockey Center, he prepares to leave the ice one last time. Olympian, firefighter, soldier, zamboni driver--what a long, strange ride it's been.Photo Courtesy Jack KirraneThe 1960 Olympic Team (Kirrane is in the front row, second from left...
...hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons in Odysseus' storeroom. Melanthius emerges "one hand clutching a crested helmet, the other/ an ample old buckler blotched with mildew/ the shield Laertes bore as a young soldier once...
...more skittish about its reception in Britain). Jordan's reconstruction of revolutionary Dublin is visually impressive and historically persuasive. His take on Collins is, in its way, equally attractive, if somewhat less than fully dimensional. Collins is presented as revolutionary warriors generally are by their admirers: as a practical soldier, a man of rough humor, mostly inarticulate idealism and, perhaps, a certain unspoken regret about that "talent for mayhem" (as he puts it), which is as much burden as gift. And he is embodied by Liam Neeson, who is near perfect in the role. There is an old-fashioned romanticism...
...since the royal divorce, an eating, dancing and shopping spree that raised money for breast-cancer research in Washington. Diana, who called the disease "a great dark enemy stalking women," charmed everyone from diva designer Isaac Mizrahi, who said,"Charles really blew it when he dumped her," to solid soldier Colin Powell, who, after scoring the first dance, opined, "She's a lot of fun." Earlier in the day, Diana shared an egg, tomato and crab Napoleon breakfast with HILLARY CLINTON, Washington Post doyenne KATHARINE GRAHAM and about 120 others. "This is one of the nicest British invasions...
Because of the introduction of new technology in the communications and information sector, Big Business is now subjected to corporate warfare. Your cover picture of Bill Gates surrounded by the Web displays this perfectly. Microsoft, the biggest soldier in this war, has proved itself many times on the computer-technology battleground. Now Microsoft finds itself fighting on a new front, which is what millions of Americans know today as the Net. Gates' enemy is Netscape...