Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TONYA HARDING IN AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER...
WHAT ARE BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON trying to hide? For three years the First Family has virtually invited that question, and thereby helped keep the Whitewater affair bubbling, by providing information only grudgingly. Never mind that they have, ultimately, turned over some 50,000 pages of evidence to congressional Whitewater investigators. The perception of stonewalling persists, and took on new life last week when the White House became embroiled with Congress in the bitterest showdown yet over Whitewater materials...
...signing ceremony was hardly a joyous affair. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic grumbled that "my government is taking part in this agreement without any enthusiasm but as someone taking a bitter yet useful potion or medication." He openly questioned whether the unified Bosnia foreseen in the treaty will "truly materialize or will it simply remain something on paper?" Croatian President Franjo Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided...
...master of this shadowy genre, and he is near the top of his form in his latest novel. His hero is a middle-age intelligence operative put to pasture by bosses who decide (wrongly, as it turns out) that his skills and mind-set are obsolete. A bittersweet love affair winds through a landscape of modern menace, whose vectors, by now quite familiar, are ethnic and religious mania...
...currently teaching French 268: "The Dreyfus Affair in Literature in Film, 1898-1978." This spring, Suleiman will teach French 132b: "20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode," which will include works of fiction by authors who have rejected the realist mode...