Word: storm
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More than 230 state issues ranging from term limits to mandatory health insurance and curbs on gay rights were on Tuesday's ballots. But none was as incendiary as the fire storm of demands for restrictions on the number of terms elected officials can serve. Not since citizen initiatives first | appeared on state ballots in 1898 has an issue so galvanized Americans. Voters in 14 states, from Oregon to Florida, which represent 35% of the American population, overwhelmingly approved proposals to limit Senators to two terms and members of Congress to anywhere from three to six terms. A 15th state...
...choice been up to foreign leaders, George Bush would surely have retained that lease. The Commander-in-Chief who oversaw the end of the cold war, prosecuted Desert Storm and set Arab-Israeli peace talks in motion gets top marks on foreign policy from most of his counterparts overseas. Says Michael Dewar, the deputy director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "If foreign policy were the main issue, Bush would win hands down -- and rightly...
...easier to find an "inner calm" hundreds of miles from textbooks, tens of miles from towns with dots on maps. I was lucky enough to enjoy the beauty and the serenity of Dai Bosatsu Zendo. I went for a walk around the lake in a post-storm mist that hung like cobwebs in the air. It was as still as zazen. I imagined it in winter, the surrounding mountains a crown of white, the water solid and still. The Zen of Ice-skating? Sounds like...
...show gives Leguizamo an actor's tour de force. He plays all six roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging...
...anyone told me after Desert Storm that this [Clinton's victory] would be tonight's outcome, I would not have believed it," said Sibylle Barrasso, a resident of Wellesley...