Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION WAS DETERmined to get it right. Haunted by the Zoe Baird debacle, officials vowed there would be no premature announcement, no surprise about illegal aliens, no misreading of public sentiment. So, while staff members completed their check of candidates for the post of Attorney General, the White House floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again...
...White House version portrays Wood as failing to disclose all the details early in the process. Officials claim that when she was first reached by phone while vacationing in Colorado, she was asked, "Do you have an illegal-alien or tax problem?" She answered no. She was then summoned to Washington. In separate meetings on Jan. 29 with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and President Clinton, the illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records...
That sentiment was echoed by a recent posting on the WELL. "I didn't get to pop some 'shrooms and dance naked in a park with several hundred of my peers," wrote a cyberpunk wannabe who calls himself Alien. "To me, and to a lot of other generally disenfranchised members of my generation, surfing the edges...
...judge a reporter on the basis of race. At the conference this fall, Kovach reminded the assembled students and journalists that a bad reporter, regardless of his or her ethnicity, will do a bad job "A good reporter of whatever background can do a good job reflecting an alien reality," Kovach said. "This is so because the best reporting is transparent. It lets the people and the events and the context within which they interact speak directly to the reader or the viewer...
...confirmation hearing opened last Tuesday with not a single member of the committee on record against Baird. But the illegal-alien issue was front and center -- and growing fast. "There were phone calls to offices, local editorials," says a top Senate official. "The people were just way ahead of us." Biden more than hinted at the ground swell with his pointed, if rambling, questions. "Do you understand that the vast majority of the American people have similar needs?" he lectured...