Word: settings
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tone for the year was set. Remember when crazy Communist Gennadi Zyuganov was way up in the polls in Russia? Everyone was worried about that. So Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a bloodless election. In Austria, that scary Jorg Haider gives up leadership of the ironically named Freedom Party. We didn't even drop any bombs on Iraq this year...
...most blistering drama of all was in the Middle East. A final, true reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians looked breathtakingly close this summer, but finally claims to Jerusalem unleashed the furies. The bloodshed of recent weeks has set the clock back to a time when peace was a dream and not a process...
...tennis Pete Sampras set a new record for most majors--13--when he won again at Wimbledon. But for all his heroics Pete could not seize the spotlight from the dynamic, effervescent Venus Williams of Compton, Calif., who became the first black player to win the All England title since Arthur Ashe did it in 1975. She then added the U.S. Open crown and a couple of Olympic gold medals to complete a career year...
Starting to sound a little like Florida? Bush taking the hard Republican line on sampling would set off all the same vote-suppression firestorms and make Bush's picks of Colin, Condi and Rod Paige look like window dressing; giving the nod to sampling - for the first time in history - would be taken by GOPers as a betrayal...
...Bomb blasts in Tel Aviv and Gaza on Thursday reportedly killed two and injured 16 more - as if anyone needed reminding that talk of peace means talk of compromise. And so it appears that even a U.S. president's best Solomon impression - the set of proposals that Bill Clinton left hanging in the air over the weekend - leaves those factions outside the Arafat umbrella in a very vengeful mood...