Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...1930s the editor Henry Luce was more than pleased with the way his magazine, TIME, was covering the world's news. "Nevertheless," he felt, "people are missing relatively more of what the camera can tell than of what the reporter writes. With more or less success they 'follow' the news--i.e., the written news. They scarcely realize how fascinating it can be to 'follow' pictures--to be for the first time pictorially well-informed...
...best of times for tyranny. True, Saddam Hussein began to shake off the shackles of world sanctions, all the while restocking his arsenal with the nastiest of weapons, unfettered and unwatched. Against all expectations, however, Yugoslavia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, vanished--poof!--from power after calling an election he felt sure he'd win, and then failing to steal the result from a populace that rose up to guard its rejection of his troublemaking. Another autarch actually took a turn toward benevolence all on his own: North Korea's quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred...
...Kostunica won the elections," Milosevic said the following day. "This decision was made by the body that was authorized to do so under the Constitution, and I consider that it has to be respected." Milosevic said he would continue to head the Socialists as an opposition party, but most felt his time had passed. His allies were another question: in the aftermath of the boss's concession, they maneuvered for positions in the new government and legislature. Although reform took a major leap in Yugoslavia with the events of 2000, many steps remain...
...slight, 136-pound teenager, with pimples, big ears and a face he thought of as so bland it amounted to invisibility, he had few friends at school. In practically every thing he did at St. Paul Central High, he felt underestimated by teachers, coaches and peers. No one ever gave him credit for his drawing, or for playing a superior game of golf. "It took me a long time to become a human being," he once said. "I never regarded myself as being much and I never regarded myself as being good-looking and I never had a date...
...sense of duty. The unprecedented obligations of his new role as world-famous cartoonist kept him in a state of constant anxiety and dread. He loved to be asked to go places and do good things and receive prestigious honors, but he hated to leave home and routine. He felt he should meet people and see the world, but he was increasingly phobic about travel. He panicked on airplanes, broke out in a cold sweat at the very idea of a hotel lobby. At home in his studio, he loved receiving fan letters by the hundreds but resented the demands...