Word: guards
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect...
...June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece of computer code he called Napster. Or on the front lines of the agritech wars, where the opponents of so-called Frankenfoods stirred a tempest in a taco shell when genetically...
...Arafat, of course, unlike Barak or Clinton, doesn't have a changing of the guard to worry about. But politics is politics, and if Arafat doesn't bring home a deal that includes the Haram al-Sharif and tackles the very touchy refugee problem to his own hawks' satisfaction, he'll go down in Palestinian infamy and quite possibly be blown up himself by militants. Or so he says. This is Middle East peace, not some Beltway budget battle, and Arafat is under some very serious pressure to come out on top at the negotiating table...
...Examining a disputed ballot b Looking at the only vote Moochie Norris got for All-Star starting point guard c Losing hair as you look at him d Freaked out by nude photos of Dom DeLuise...
...Crimson's starting backcourt, composed of Gellert and sophomore point-guard Elliot Prasse-Freeman, rose to the occassion when the game was on the line. Gellert finished with a double-double, scoring 17 points and bringing down 10 rebounds, while Prasse-Freeman came up with the game's biggest board, hauling in Crimson sophomore guard Sam Winter's missed three-pointer and promptly dishing the ball to Clemente...