Word: abroadly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jenny E. Heller, in her piece "Ashamed to Be an American Abroad" (Opinion, Jan. 6) feels ashamed to be an American because her president had oral sex in the Oval Office. True, America has become a laughing stock. But this is not because President Clinton had an extramarital affair, but because the nation--especially its politicians and its press--have become obsessed with the issue...
...wish I could believe, as Jenny E. Heller seems to ("Ashamed to Be an American Abroad," Opinion, Jan. 6), that America has been "unwavering in the pursuit of the good and the just" over its history, but is only now, because of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, in danger of forever losing its moral authority over the world...
...dropped an atomic bomb and persuaded Americans he did it to save Allied lives if he had lied to his people even one time? Could John F. Kennedy '40 have forced Nikita S. Khrushchev to back down in the Cuban Missile Crisis if he were the subject of ridicule abroad...
...year has been a rough one for both funds, as tumultuous markets both here and abroad have made professional investors sweat. Even the stewards of Harvard's multi-billion endowment are looking to break even this year after devastating losses at home and abroad...
...United States, a nation born of rules and law--its Constitution written and revered--is forever perplexed by the jungle beyond the seas. We Americans are always looking for moral order abroad to parallel the moral order at home. Alas, we never find...