Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming out of halftime, the Crimson seemed transformed. Sophomore standout Armando Petruccelli, laid up for the past two weeks by injury, entered at midfield and lost little time changing the tenor of the affair...
...Clinton's operation. The risk is that Clinton will go from the Permanent Campaign to the Permanent Cross Examination without passing through Governing. The atmosphere surrounding these probes could grow shriller if, as some predict, the leadership of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee probing the travel-office affair and the fbi-file flap passes from retiring Representative Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania to the more volatile Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. Overseeing Senate probes will be Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, who worked on the Watergate Committee in 1973. But Thompson isn't without misgivings. He is worried that...
...Zeller '97, the Crimson's ombudperson, wrote a column questioning whether I had a previous record with the Ad Board that influenced its decision (no) and arguing that this was not an issue of freedom of the press. I would argue with Zeller's conclusion that this sordid affair has nothing to do with freedom of the press (I would not have been Ad Boarded had the "Prank Files" not been published), but I agree with him that the primary issue should be the legitimacy of the punishment...
...detests leaks, journalists live by them, and press conduct is the other great issue of the Jewell affair. Is it right to print in every newspaper and broadcast on every television station in the world the name of a man who anonymous sources have said is the subject of an investigation but who has not been arrested or charged? Is it right to explore every aspect of his life, to sit outside his home with TV cameras for weeks on end? Is it right to sacrifice an individual's privacy to the abstract principle of the public's right...
...stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters. The English Patient, though, expands its field of vision to embrace the impromptu communities around Almasy--notably Hana and her Sikh lover Kip (Naveen Andrews). They re-enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...