Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this sounds familiar, it probably should. Throughout the cold war, complacent Americans watched with disdain as promising youngsters behind the Iron Curtain were plucked from home and hearth and sent to spend their childhood in athletic camps where they would be ruthlessly forged into international competitors, exemplars of the totalitarian ideal...
...that was years ago. Watching the crazy culture of kids' sports in America today, a cynic might marvel at how the world has changed. The good news is that the cold war is over. The bad news is that the East Germans...
...Department correspondent, canvassed officials in the intelligence community and the State Department, as well as nongovernment agencies that provide aid overseas. "No one person has all the information," he says. "There is not a silver bullet of a source." His experience suggests that covering the diplomacy to end a war can be as harrowing as covering the war itself, though he concedes it is "a heck of a lot less dangerous." He does like adventure, however; for his last book, Air Warriors, he flew with Navy pilots for two years...
...flat tax is a good idea. We've got self-improvers out the wazoo, just improvin' themselves up a storm. We've got people who live for bingo, people dedicated to ballroom dancing as a way of life, people passionate about Fiestaware and people whose world revolves around Civil War re-enactments...
Crime is down, school scores are up and there is no baseball strike. We're no longer bombing the Serbs to make them quit killing the Kosovars, our first ever "humanitarian war." Latrell Sprewell has made a comeback, and no one in boxing has bitten anyone else's ear off lately. Henry Kissinger was not named Humanitarian of the Year this year. True, the President was caught diddling an intern at the White House, but all that happened was it cost Newt Gingrich his job. You think any other country could come up with a scenario like that? Could Canada...