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Over the past decade, the London-born Amanpour has covered many of the world’s tensest regions, including Iran, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Bosnia-Herzegovina...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CNN’s Amanpour Wins Award | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

...tensest moment in John F. Kennedyis administration was brought on by Hollywood, not Mother Russia. Encroached upon by Marilyn Monroe, JFK found that he had a Cuban Missile Crisis...in his pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Presidential Folklore | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

Call it diplomacy on the fly. By expelling the inspectors two weeks ago, Saddam had sparked the tensest standoff with the U.S. since the Gulf War. President Clinton had threatened a massive attack against Iraq, but only Britain was willing to go along with it. The other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--Russia, France and China--opposed military action, as did every country in the Middle East. That left diplomacy, which the White House began intensely two weekends ago when Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin to give him the green light to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT 2 A.M. IN GENEVA | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Korea. The Seoul government quickly labeled the landing "an act of military provocation" and demanded that the North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPIES FROM THE SEA | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...party scenes are particular highlights of the production. The entire cast makes an elegant picture in which some of the tensest dramatic moments of the plot are framed...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: Magnum Opera Stops the Show | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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