Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Locals concede that this winter's cold has not lived up to that of past campaign seasons in New Hampshire, and there's more bad news for skiers - in the coming weeks, every presidential hopeful will try to raise the temperature a few more degrees. With this in mind, GOP candidates are lining up for a chance to throw a few sparks at Thursday night's debate in Durham, N.H. A sense of urgency has infiltrated each camp, and the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary loom. "If the candidates are going to engage," says TIME correspondent John Dickerson, "this...
Senior U.S. officials who have met recently with Putin say he is level-headed, intelligent and clearly focused on improving life in Russia. He is, they say, more realist than ideologue. Even after the cold war ended, U.S.-Russia meetings were often tense, usually starting with a long Russian recitation about items on which the two nations would never agree. Putin, by contrast, generally starts his conversation with an old salesman's trick--reviewing things that the U.S. and Russia have in common. There is "none of the Jekyll-and-Hyde ambivalence that characterized former Russian leaders, including Yeltsin," says...
...same time, individual privacy is both systemically invaded and willingly forfeited. Businesses spend fortunes spying on the competition. A few weeks ago, a Russian spy was caught listening to a bug planted in the State Department, having possibly made a comfortable shift from cold war espionage to industrial espionage. CD-ROMs are sold with essential information on millions of citizens. Banks divulge how much money one has; credit companies, how much one owes. Yet privacy is also eagerly, happily surrendered--on radio and TV talk-revelation-boxing shows. Everyone owns a camcorder, so everyone is on TV. One has never...
...looking back at us. You see us looking out at you. Because we can imagine one another, we constitute each other's dreams. Outside, the air is cold and deep. The moon hangs in a fingernail of light. The clouds conspire and retreat to reveal your stars and ours. Come. Walk with me in the chill still of the night...
Almost as interested in world rollovers as the bunkered down were the U.S. and Russian military officers at Peterson Air Force Base, the now permanent Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability. Officers from both sides of the cold peace, who were there to make sure no nukes accidentally went off, labored to keep busy, channel surfing among CNN and other news shows and showing one another Russian Internet fare. The only old-school touch was the hot-line phones, black for Moscow, white for the U.S. When the clocks changed in Moscow and no bugs were reported, the Russian team...