Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President of the debating team, 1300 on her boards, reads Noam Chomsky in her spare time, parents make $30,000 a year. Let's see, $3,000 in financial aid sounds about right. You on board, Brown? What about you, Barnard...
...contra war winds down to a whimper, so too does a U.S. policy that preoccupied the Reagan Administration through two terms. The seeds of disengagement were sown last April, when President Bush secured $49.75 million in nonlethal aid for the contras in exchange for a guarantee that Congress could review -- and sever -- the aid package this November. Since many in Congress support the Central American leaders' desire to disband the contras, the Bush Administration seemed to capitulate without a fight. "Our intention is to play it straight and stick with the ((peace)) process," said a State Department official...
...enough, and remain enterprising enough, to explore some unlikely avenues of musical inspiration. "There are eight really strong personalities in the band," MacGowan comments. "Everybody writes." Jem Finer, who plays banjo, sax and hurdy-gurdy and who pulled the Pogues together in the early days, has written, with the aid of a "very old Italian phrase book," an aria. "We've rehearsed it," he reveals, "but it wasn't recorded for the album. Various factions thought it was pushing things a bit far. But opera is one of our secret desires." Unlike British soldiers on a pub crawl, opera fans...
...only natural to feel nostalgic about the events of one's youth, but somehow I don't think members of my generation will get misty-eyed nothing the 20th anniversary of, say, the Shuttle explosion or the Live Aid concert...
Market Darwinism often condemns admirable art to obscurity. We need more federal aid to prime the cultural pump -- even if some of it goes to artists who offend...