Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He carried out one murder with his own hands, planned at least one more, speaks with repellent offhandedness about still other assassinations. He is capable of warmth, though -- for his old boss, Lavrenti Beria, and for Beria's boss, Joseph Stalin; he still admires both even while acknowledging their "criminal...
That should be enough for the Leno and Letterman monologues. But by now Washington is more transfixed by the really dirty part -- the politics. In a week when Clinton won a close but smashing victory in Congress on assault weapons, the big question is what impact the lawsuit could have...
The Hutu instantly blamed the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front for the death of their President. Within minutes after the crash, soldiers of the presidential guard, who most resisted any sharing of power, took to the streets along with mobs of drunken young men and began hunting down...
Television, however, handles King clumsily. ABC's four-hour version of It (childhood friends battle nameless evil, personified by Tim Curry as a malevolent clown) was bloated and out of control, while The Tommyknockers (more nameless evil, this time chasing Jimmy Smits) seemed derivative and halfhearted. Still, both were big...
They are the soul of the personal computer and worth more than their weight in gold or cocaine. Small wonder then that these tiny, high-tech chips have become the latest target of the international crime set. A few tales from the cyberfront: in Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked...