Word: postscripts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this whimsical hobbling of normal syntax? In a Postscript, our author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
This story a postscript: On Friday morning, I groggily woke up to an early phone call. When I heard the high pitched voice on the line, I thought it was a prank call. I soon found out that the voice belonged to eleven year old Dina Hillel, of Hollis Elemantary School in Hollis, New Hampshire. Dina told me that she read about what Harvard students had done for Bosnia in the Harvard Gazette. She told me that her fifth grade class would like to raise money for us, and asked me to send her some of the flyers we used...
...Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion killed three boys and a girl, all between...
First, the program took advantage of Adobe Systems' PostScript, developed to facilitate professional typography on the Mackintosh. PostScript allows programmers to describe to great detail how type-face should look when displayed on the screen and printer...
...closest that the U.S. came to giving primacy to moral concerns was the postscript to the Persian Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was prevented from slaughtering the Kurds. Two decades earlier, after secretly encouraging the Kurds to rebel, the U.S. had callously cut them off when they no longer served its interests; in explaining this decision to a closed hearing, Kissinger gave a classic exposition of realpolitik: "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work." Given America's moral streak, such an approach tends to require secrecy. Bush did not have that option: a barrage of pictures of suffering...