Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banks of the Mississippi before then. "I want you all to see the riv-er the way I see the riv-er," he says, letting the word roll out slowly, a promise of ineffable revelations to come. Events such as this, designed to show off a candidate's small-town heart, tend to feel like Hollywood location shoots--superimposed on a place. Bradley wants to prove he has a real connection to this one. But first he has to find his wife. "Ernestine...
...cameramen jousting and stumbling behind. After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says, "and some things are not retrievable. They become...
...people--about a quarter of the population--have fled the territory. By the end of the week, the militias seemed to be withdrawing, and on Sunday evening, amid boiling international pressure, Indonesian President B.J. Habibie agreed to allow U.N. peacekeepers into East Timor. A U.N. team had visited the town on Saturday and gave the world some inkling of what to expect: hundreds of thousands of refugees and a moonscape of devastation...
Fortunately for Sega, Dreamcast is the best act in town--for now. Michael Goodman, a Yankee Group analyst, says that as long as the great games keep coming, the company could up its market share to 15% or 20%. Early returns look good. A remarkable 250,000 Dreamcasts sold on launch day. If the pace keeps up and Microsoft gets into the action, then even I'll be e-mailing Santa for a console...
...forces back into Kosovo to police borders and guard sensitive sites, and alliance commanders fear that Belgrade may have decided to take matters into its own hands: NATO reported a number of incidents last week that point to activity by Serb paramilitary forces inside Kosovo, particularly around the disputed town of Mitrovica. With little sign that the underlying causes of the Kosovo war have abated, don?t expect those peacekeepers home any time soon...