Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the break, the game settled into a tight defensive struggle sporadically punctuated by terrific opportunities on both sides. Clever passes from the midfield found streaking attackers cutting to the goal as both teams looked for the quick strike. Sophomore midfielder Maisa Badawy played a crucial role in the Harvard defense, marking and shutting down Cardinal standout Carey Cloyd...
Last Tuesday night, at the Fireside Lounge, a campus watering hole where he was a favorite regular, Shepard, 21, was enough at ease to strike up a conversation with two tall, muscular men, Russell Henderson, 21, and Aaron McKinney, 22, both high school dropouts. In fact, Shepard was comfortable enough to get into a pickup truck with them at about midnight. According to the police in Laramie, Wyo., the pair had apparently led him to believe that they too were gay. But all pretense vanished as the journey got under way. Police say the three were barely a half-mile...
...Yugoslav President Milosevic are in the crosshairs again. If the massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo do not stop, NATO warns, and Serb troops and special police are not pulled out, the missiles will fly. NATO has put together a plan of action that would begin with a strike by dozens of Tomahawks launched from U.S. warships and submarines that were in the Ionian Sea last week. If not headed off by diplomacy, the attack could begin this week...
...Milosevic, the missiles' biggest drawback is that they are effective only against targets that don't move. That means they cannot be used to drive out the troops and police who are brutalizing Kosovo's civilians. So the NATO plan is to use the cruise missiles as a first strike, to disarm Serbia's dangerous air-defense system and make the sky safe for follow-up attacks by allied planes...
Only now, the question of responsibility is involved. Can a man be justified in selling drugs if he has to support his family in the projects? Is it a young man's right to strike back against an oppressive society...violently, if necessary? Who is to blame for the overpopulation of young black men in America's jails today? The streets? The police? The prisoners themselves...