Word: borderers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five rockets were fired Friday in a coordinated attack on two U.S. facilities and a U.N. building in Islamabad. One person was slightly injured. And you don't have to look very far for suspects: America's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is still hiding just across the border in Afghanistan, and the attack occurred two days before U.N. sanctions take effect against that country for the refusal by its ruling Taliban movement to hand over the Saudi financier-terrorist. Pakistan has long been the Taliban's primary sponsor, and Bin Laden remains hugely popular with its large...
...crossing the line between Cambridge and Somerville on Kirkland Street is always a strange thing. Stepping over that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness...
Regular and irregular verbs today have their roots in old border disputes between words and rules. Many irregulars can be traced back over 5,500 years to a mysterious tribe that came to dominate Europe, western Asia and northern India. Its language, Indo-European, is the ancestor of Hindi, Persian, Russian, Greek, Latin, Gaelic and English. It had rules that replaced vowels: the past of senkw- (sink) was sonkw...
...governments are less impressed. Russian forces Friday continued to pound Chechen villages -- for the benefit of a live TV audience for the first time in Russian history - and Western journalists reported that some 50 refugees had been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a convoy heading for the border. But U.N. moves to send a humanitarian team to assess the needs of refugees from the conflict, and President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow may be unable to keep what it considers a domestic matter from becoming an international...