Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bell Tolls" eerie new dimensions. Blistering epics like "Bleeding Me" and "The Outlaw Torn" become even more grandiose in scale, while melodic ballads such as "Until It Sleeps" and "Nothing Else Matters" are made even more haunting and vibrant. The highlight of the album is the group's anti-war classic "One," which is elevated into an intricate piece of resonant beauty...
...same, unfortunately, cannot be said for Moonchildren. Set during the '66-'67 school year, the play revolves around the lives of seven college hippies--five men and two women--living communally in an apartment in New York. The issue of the day is the Vietnam War, and the men are terrified of being drafted after they graduate. That is to say, one of them mentions that inclination once near the beginning of the play. Weller's idea of developing this theme consist of having his protagonist Bob (Jay Chaffin '01) summoned for a medical exam, act like he is dead...
...media's current fascination with his temper. Or he could be the Alan E. Keyes '72, with his outrageous allegations and proposals, pushed to the margins of an already marginal race. Dreyfus wants Harvard to regress 30 years to 1969 when students stormed University Hall. He wants the war-like atmosphere of those days to galvanize the student body. He's insane...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...
...rather than simply send in his army, Milosevic may choose instead to arm and organize the mostly pro-Serbian Montenegrins in the north of the country to fight the independence-minded government in the south. That will leave NATO facing the uncomfortable prospect of getting involved in a tribal war." And, of course, a U.S. election year may be just the opportunity Milosevic has been waiting for to launch a fresh round of murderous mischief in the Balkans...