Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cases, credible sources for his book who were contacted by TIME say Hersh's account of their stories differs from what they recall telling him. Hersh writes that during Kennedy's presidency, a Secret Service agent brought "sexually explicit photographs of a naked President with various paramours" to be framed at the Washington art gallery of Sidney Mickelson. In some pictures, Hersh says, J.F.K. appears among a group of people wearing masks. But Mickelson now insists that what he described to Hersh was just two pictures of three masked figures in a bed with the covers pulled up to their...
...Children account for nearly two-thirds of these projects' population, and many of them have fathers who are either missing, in prison or dead. The firemen, therefore, stand among a handful of male role models in this urban wasteland. On their days off, they drop by to tutor children in chess and math and to encourage them to stay in school. Most important, they offer discipline, tenderness and inspiration to a community where such things are in terribly short supply...
...necessary to take personality into account at an early stage of foreign policy. We may have to get another nation to like us in order to get them to listen to our ideas. However, we must not mistake this sort of friendship for enduring respect or peace. Real peace requires the careful articulation, understanding, and appreciation of one another's ideas, regardless of personalities...
Whoever said inexperience hurts did not take the Harvard women's hockey team into account...
What animates Nearer are Buckley's personal chapters: his recollection of a year or so at a Jesuit boarding school in England, an awed visit to Lourdes, and a moving account of his nephew Michael Bozell's ordination as a Benedictine priest in France. In a charming tribute to onetime Punch editor Malcolm Muggeridge, he recounts, with dry hilarity, a private audience with the Pope at which a badly briefed John Paul II seemed utterly baffled as to who his guests were. (Buckley nonetheless managed to inform the Pope--and us--that he too has a private chapel at home...