Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take stock of ourselves and what it means to be an American. It's already plain that the explosion did more than just remind us that terrorism happens. In a nation that has entertained and appalled itself for years with hot talk on the radio and the campaign trail, the inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an unindicted co-conspirator in the blast. As for antigovernment sentiment, so long as Americans are fretful about Washington-for that matter, so long as Americans are Americans-it won't go away. How it's expressed, however, is now subject to reconsideration...
...Vietnam in an attempt to force the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. At the same time his fear of "escalation" led him to hamstring the military's efforts to push northwards toward North Vietnam or to disrupt the enemy's supply lines, the so-called "Ho Chi Minh Trail" that went through a nominally neutral Laos...
...route and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is bracing for the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Network stars and war correspondents such as Dan Rather and Peter Arnett will be reporting from the roof of the old U.S. embassy and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Veterans' groups and congressional fact-finding delegations are swarming over the country. Instead of simply reliving the war, though, the visitors are discovering the new Vietnam, where rooftop satellite dishes and joint-venture hotels signal the emergence of one of the world's newest success stories...
...hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more than the merest ghost of pathos--but you shudder at the gratuitousness of their posthumous torment. It's like a brief glimpse of animal hell, going...
ATTENTION, READERS. It's time for a little game of Jeopardy!. First, for $100: this French veteran of the Napoleonic wars invented hiking and the forest trail by painting blue arrows on strategically placed trees in the unmarked wilds of the Fontainebleau woods. For $200: this mountain in Middle Europe was long believed to house the tomb of Pontius Pilate. Finally, for $300: these obscure bits of ancient trivia, and hundreds more like them, can be found in this new book by a professor of history at Columbia University...