Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest accusations from the West include the charge that Kosovars are being used as human shields. "We certainly hear that [Serb forces] have surrounded military vehicles with civilians," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. Such stories are particularly difficult to confirm, but there is special concern after the disappearance of tens of thousands of refugees who had been seen just inside Kosovo trying to get out. Last Tuesday night, at least 70,000 refugees had gathered on the Kosovo side of border crossings into Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia. At dawn on Wednesday, the crossings were empty...
...soup or AT&T. Schools earn points for every box top, soup label or long-distance phone call--which can then be redeemed for athletic and educational equipment. Or the school may be flush with prize money won in a contest sponsored by Chips Ahoy!, which asked students to confirm that there really are 1,000 chips in each bag, or Kellogg's, which had kids make sculptures out of Rice Krispies and melted marshmallows. "Is it proper for public institutions to become salespeople and build brand loyalty?" asks Andrew Hagelshaw, senior program director at the Center for Commercial-Free...
...tougher job, as this haunting first feature proves. Isa is defiantly sunny, her pal severe, volcanic. Isa tries awful things (like a job handing out flyers on rollerskates) because, hey, they could be "tres cool"; Marie endures awful things (like an affair with a bourgie creep) to confirm her dour view of the world. The stars shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes last year, and both are brilliant. But Bouchez's expressive face lets you speed-read each of a dozen moods in a few seconds. That's innate screen genius...
...much as I used to." Okay, maybe flying all the way to Milan only to act like a human clothes hanger for 16 hours at a stretch gives one a real feel for the anticlimactic. Maybe even for the totally useless. What this magazine did for me is confirm my (seemingly common-sense) belief that regular, real people are far more interesting than stars. And not so long ago, you, Jane, as revealed through Sassy, held this view too. Part of the joy of your old magazine was that it applauded the idea that movie stars are a little more...
Anson Kaye, a spokesperson for Coakley, said he could not confirm nor clearing the Byrely rape, citing the confidentiality of the proceedings...