Word: affirmation
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...minutes (since 1389) / Length of time between Clinton¹s acquittal and his proposal to use force to enforce an armistice in Kosovo 1,440 minutes / Tulane University students celebrate Mardi Gras for 10,080 minutes / Time left in lent 6,480 minutes / Time it took cosmologists to affirm that the universe won¹t collapse 8,640 minutes / The year of the rabbit has been going on for 1,658,880 minutes / Overboard, starring Goldie Hawn, runs 106 minutes / hasty Pudding Theatricals¹s Woman of the Year parade on Tuesday lasted 20 minutes / American Airline strike totalled...
...much to help Republicans save face with their party's Clinton-loathing right wing. The G.O.P. proposal with the most momentum last week, the so-called finding-of-fact proposal, would have cataloged the offenses that Senators believed had been proved in the trial, allowing them to affirm that the President had coached witnesses and lied to the grand jury. The proposal was almost indistinguishable in content from the punishment preferred by most Democrats--censure--yet Democrats rejected it as an unconstitutional sham. "To do this because some Senators are uncomfortable with acquittal and need some political cover...
...bearing on conviction or acquittal but would give Republicans the chance to issue a formal denunciation, now that it is all but certain Clinton will be let off. If a Senator thought the President lied but did not commit perjury, for example, he or she could vote to affirm the lie in the finding of fact without voting to convict on impeachment. Some conservative Republicans, such as Phil Gramm, oppose the gambit, contending that it is designed solely to give cover to moderate Republicans, allowing them to say they punished Clinton without having to convict...
...struggle with disbelief, but as more and more victims go crashing through the streets trampling cats and knocking down stairs, the survivors become engaged in a struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses. The play, which signaled at turning point in the career of the dramatist Eugene Ionesco, is a startling commentary on the rise of fascism and on mass hysteria...
...relief, the Handbook on Race Relations did no such thing. It is an entirely uncontroversial collection of interesting essays from students and scholars that, according to Dean Archie Epps, should "deepen our understanding of the light and shadow surrounding the important subject of race relations" and "affirm the `common ground' in human experience." But what is this "common ground"? If we could define this nebulous area of human experience, that would certainly be a step in the right direction...