Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly...
...called death by a thousand cuts. Each slice in the prisoner's flesh was minor, but the overall effect was fatal. There are some similarities in the way the U.S.-China relationship is enduring a series of clashes and confrontations. Each one is relatively small, but taken together they threaten the viability of the Administration's policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing. President Clinton last week proposed an extension of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status for another year. Congress will soon take up the issue in what is expected to be an emotional argument about trade...
...Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly...
...Bosnia under the control of the Bosnian Serbs. Partition could also lead to the eventual involuntary dismemberment of Bosnia, with each of its larger neighbors, Croatia and Serbia, annexing a portion of the country, leaving a weak, landlocked Muslim mini-state around Sarajevo. Such a result would threaten the fragile stability in southeastern Europe. At a minimum, Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey would all be affected...
...another matter entirely. While HUPD is there to help Harvard students, it is also obliged to enforce the law, and ignoring a felony drug operation would go far beyond the "benign neglect" referred to by Mr. Aibel. There is a point at which the actions of individual students may threaten the security of the community, and at that point it is the responsibility of the police to act. The police have encountered safety problems with students under the unlawful influence of alcohol and other drugs, and although they typically do not punish these students, they are perfectly justified in trying...