Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things are different. In a Simpson ripple effect, Judge Stanley Weisberg has banned cameras from his Van Nuys courtroom. He has also ruled that the brothers be tried together, as the separate juries last time created too much confusion. Abramson--surprisingly, given her penchant for publicity last time around and her telegenic presence for ABC as an expert commentator on the Simpson case--requested and was denied a gag order to prevent the prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this...
...touchingly naive thought, whether we were naked or dressed in full suits of armor? The whole point of cyberspace, as I understood it, was to escape from the body, with its nonstop announcements of age, race and sex. "Could we just talk?" I typed lamely, or something to that effect. "I'm taking off my pants," Demonboy typed back, "and running my tongue inside your thighs...
...1970s, he drifted into a yearlong crime spree of shoplifting, check forgery, housebreaking and bank fraud--following the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had been sent to jail for embezzlement. The writing is stripped-down Dostoyevsky ("My head itched. Cold sweat ran down my flesh...."), the overall effect as unnerving and oddly exhilarating as the life of a secret thief apparently was for the author...
YOUR ARTICLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN insult to the mainstream of scientists who have studied the issue. Yes, there are uncertainties as to the magnitude of cause and effect. And yes, there is some disagreement on specific rises in temperatures and rainfall. But to just throw up your hands and say it is too late to do anything will only allow the preventable to happen. HOWARD MEAD Cinnaminson, New Jersey...
...warring parties in Bosnia silenced their guns--with some major exceptions--two days after a cease-fire was due to take effect (the truce was held up until gas and electricity connections could be restored to the besieged capital of Sarajevo). Shortly before the scheduled start of the cease-fire, the Serbs bombarded a U.N.-declared "safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women...