Word: aftermaths
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Neither did the party's congressional leaders, most of whom were conspicuous in their absence from the airwaves in the aftermath of Clinton's speech. (In a stroke of luck for the President, Congress is on summer recess, its members dispersed across the country and the world.) House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, celebrating his 32nd anniversary with his wife in France, declined CNN's offer to dispatch a satellite truck so he could appear on Larry King Live. His Senate counterpart, Tom Daschle, was spending the week cruising around his home state of South Dakota, alone and, as one aide...
...concepts to be sneezed at. Case in point: Massachusetts teachers and teachers-in-training have been having a rough time of it lately. First, the facts. Three weeks ago it was announced that nearly two-thirds of teaching candidates had failed a newly required competency exam. In the aftermath of that announcement, politicians had a field day, rushing to judgment on the test-takers and their college teachers. House Speaker Tom Finneran (D-Mattapan) denounced the test-takers as "idiots" and proclaimed college diplomas worth nothing more than a "used Kleenex that's been lying in the gutter." One wonders...
...children. Dorman has said she and Mitchard raced the clock to get the book into the hands of beach readers. The haste shows. Predictable and melodramatic, The Most Wanted lacks the depth of The Deep End of the Ocean, which was a moving portrait of a family in the aftermath of a child's kidnapping...
...temperamentally a Romantic, eager for seclusion: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree." But public life would not let him. Whatever his subject--his native Ireland's struggles for independence, the growing chaos across Europe--he turned current events into lasting art. In the aftermath of World War I, he pronounced a memorable verdict: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
Blues music emerged in the aftermath of U.S. slavery. With a lineage consisting largely of spirituals and work songs, the blues was the first musical genre to reflect black people's experience of "freedom...