Word: anews
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...science. We cannot say why a painting once supposed to be by Rembrandt loses face when its connection with the master is disputed or disproved, even though it looks just the same as it did when we admired it before. Nor can we understand the sudden compulsion to look anew at and find merit in the alleged Michelangelo Cupid and the reputed Shakespeare elegy. For all we supposedly know about it, art remains a mystery to us, forever beckoning, forever withholding its inner secrets. The best we can do is to keep our eyes open, aware that that neglected statue...
WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW, AND WHEN DID HE know it? That famous line of inquiry from the Watergate prosecution that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon bubbled up anew after Britain's venerable Barings Bank collapsed in February: What did senior bank officials know of the dealings of rogue trader Nick Leeson, and when did they know it? Answers to those questions would determine whether the bank, like Nixon, had been party to a cover...
...excited to start anew and to get back to winning," Tracy said. "We want to bring that winning tradition back to Harvard, where it belongs...
...point of leaving his post as the State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. His relationship with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake was rocky, and Wall Street, where he had carved out a lucrative career as an investment banker, beckoned anew. Then in July the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and galvanized President Clinton into belated action. His departure plans suddenly on hold, Holbrooke took charge of the Administration's negotiations on Bosnia. Plunging zestfully into the Balkan thicket, he emerged last week with the dramatic Serb...
...most important world organization is theUnited Nations. I think that the fiftiethanniversary of its birth could be an occasion toreflect on how to infuse it with a new ethos, anew strength and a new meaning, and make it thetruly most important arena of good co-operationamong all cultures that make up our planetarycivilization...