Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT/ DEATH HAD undone so many ." wrote Dante of his descent into the inferno. What was most remarkable, in the aftermath of Oklahoma's sorrow, was that the people were not undone; the sturdy cliches about Midwestern fortitude came to life as an entire city refused to buckle in grief. "We hate and despise the people who did it," said Senior District Judge Fred Daugherty, who survived the blast in his courthouse office next door to the federal building. "But we're a strong and simple folk. We'll rebuild and roll with this thing...
...aftermath of Oklahoma City, many Americans found it hard to avoid looking at their surroundings in an unsettling new light, in which any abandoned package might be a grenade, any car a bomb. The possibility of domestic terrorism, first raised by the World Trade Center bombing and then dismissed as a big-city phenomenon, may finally be driven home. For some time to come Americans will be struggling with questions that were supposed to draw no closer than Jerusalem or Belfast or, at worst, Manhattan. Just how much can they do to make life safer from terrorist attacks...
Oakhurst, which has a congregation that is roughly half black and half white, is what diversity is all about: people of different races coming together not in the mournful, candle-bearing aftermath of some urban riot or the artificially arranged precursor to some political photo op, but because they want to be together. Things in America tend toward being all one thing or all the other. Schools, parties, circles of friends, television sitcoms are often mostly or entirely white or mostly or entirely black. It's especially rare to see a church that is racially mixed with such equanimity...
...whether feisty law professor Charles Fried will emerge in triumph or as a casualty in the aftermath of the rent control wars remains to be seen...
...second principle also came into play in the aftermath of the now-well-publicized brawl at the D.U. club. Louis J. Kane '53, president of the club's graduate board, said in March that Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman '67 had told him the names of two students who were involved in Administrative Board proceedings after the fight. Such action would constitute a clear violation of federal privacy...