Word: alan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...onboard, and TIME's Person of the Year issue to dangle before guests, I pursued a Noah's Ark theory of who else to invite: two members of Congress, two teachers, two candlestick makers. I warned everyone they would be TIME's guinea pigs. But when you're having Alan Greenspan to dinner, you realize the repercussions of a dyspeptic entree. Who wants to serve the meal that ends the longest economic expansion in peacetime history...
...Alan Greenspan...
Since regaining our composure, we've decided to delve a bit more deeply into this minefield, and explore the whys and wherefores of the storm surrounding sex education. The original analysis grew out of two recent studies by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation, which reported that fully one third of American public school districts follow an abstinence-only curriculum in their sex education classes. We wondered if abstinence education was working, and suggested that perhaps such an approach was unrealistic in light of what we know about sexual behavior among teens. And people let us know...
...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin Josh Banerjee Tanya L. Barnes John P. Basbagill Jason M. Baskin Anne C. Bass Judy Batalion Cathrin B. Bauer Joel A. Bauman Ryan P. Bayley Amanda H. Beck Amy L. Beck Sitso Bediako Kimberly Beeman Randolph A.G. Bell Marcy E. Beller Alan R. Bengtzen Leslie C. Bennett Dorian Berger Ashley S. Berman Emma L. Berndt Vanessa P. Bertozzi Susan M. Biancani Julia E. Blain Sara Y. Blanchard Trevor S. Blake Michael C. Blaugrand Eliza C. Block Hannah I. Blumenthal Eric J. Bolesh Taylor M. Bollman Eddie J. Borey Michael Bortnik Hector...