Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British Columbia's premier, William Vander Zalm, has already said his province will "seek a different type of confederation," modeled on what Quebec achieves. "We ought to be looking at what it is that might be negotiated for Quebec," he says, "and we should be negotiating on a parallel stream." Premier Grant Devine of Saskatchewan said last week his province too will need "more independence...
Islam Dara is a small mujahedin supply base nestled in jagged rocks beneath a circle of mountains, a desert oasis fed by a cold thin stream. Except for the sound of aerial bombing that burns red rings of brush fire above the enclave, Islam Dara seems sheltered. A few canvas tents are pitched amid boulders and mounds of ammunition: RPG-7s, launchers, bazookas. With its cool caves and grassy marshes harboring frogs, Islam Dara is a boy's paradise out of Kipling. But the dozen or so boys who stay there are living an idyll...
This spring, after three months abstinence, the sheesha brought back strong memories of his explorations of Cairo. It was easy to sit with him in the back-yard, stirring tea, handing back and forth the lay, basking in a stream of Arabic names and stories. Every night until the tobacco ran out, Mark would be in the backyard, arranging glowing embers with the masha' (a pair of small brass tongs), cupping his hands and blowing softly on the coals...
ATTEMPTING to do the right thing amid an information blitz, we are like the victims of frequent brainwashing that the philosopher Hannah Arendt describes in an essay on political deceit. Contrary to what some might expect, persons subjected to a stream of media manipulation, instead of believing what ever new they are told, grow less impressionable, more cynical, more inclined to disbelieve everything even as more versions of the truth are fed them...
...supposed to be the serious one. Julio wrote about "hockey gods" eating popcorn in Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse. I called for RPI hockey Coach Mike Adessa's resignation. Julio gave a stream-of-consciousness account of sports in the year 2000. I did a series on the law and women's sports...