Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what Kagame wants, it might provide an end to the ethnic rivalries that have haunted central Africa for decades. On the other hand, it might be the opening move to redraw the Congo's borders. If that happens, no one can predict where the unraveling will stop. Somaliland has split from Somalia, Eritrea has left Ethiopia, Anjouan has declared its independence from the Comoros. The Africa carved up by Europeans in the 19th century may be completely unrecognizable in the 21st...
...reader. Others, however, manage to pull the reader quickly into their lives and by the end it is impossible to escape the feeling that some of these writers are close friends one has known for years. The universality of themes is fascinating, especially as it is often split among gender lines. Writing about life defining experiences, the women essayists tend, in most cases, to do so by discussing specific relationships with fathers, brothers, boyfriends, marriage or sex; their male counterparts, with few exceptions, barely touch on them at all, drawing self-definition from other sources...
...Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster, cheaper way to send information...
Ambitious dreamers may wonder: What would happen if one were to spend $80 million procuring all possible combinations--in other words, 80 million different tickets? Well, you could win $295.7 million if no one else picked the winning number. Or you could split it with, say, 10 other winners and lose $50 million. In this imaginary scenario, "you're guaranteed to win something," explains Arnold Barnett, a statistician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but will you recoup your investment? That depends on how many other people...
...Monica's story is worth "maybe as much as a million," while ROBERT GOTTLIEB of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. LARRY KIRSHBAUM of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star's PHIL BUNTON has a standing offer of $1 million to hear Lewinsky's story, while the Globe's TONY FROST has "scant interest." Meanwhile, right-wing publisher Regnery next week becomes the first with a proimpeachment book, this one by commentator ANN COULTER...