Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn't begin until Labor Day. Many Republicans hope that's not too late...
...country, and scholars of the field still acknowledge, proudly, the openly political nature of their discipline, for, to them and to many minority students, racism is endemic to American society and so deeply ingrained in academia and other areas of life that radical paradigm shifts are necessary to even begin to overcome the legacy of discrimination that haunts this country. Although the The Crimson Staff may claim, and rightly so, that the experiences of African Americans are very different from those of Asian Americans, Latino Americans and Native Americans, one cannot dismiss historical patterns of racism that have affected...
...opponents, these equations "are based on an economy that doesn't exist anymore," in the words of Jared Hazleton, director of the Center for Business and Economic Analysis at Texas A&M. To begin with, many think that productivity is growing faster than the official figures show, a suspicion publicly voiced by Greenspan. One reason: the official measures are based largely on output of things--numbers of autos, board feet of lumber--and may be overlooking computer-driven gains, especially in service industries. "It's very hard to measure electronic bits floating around in the atmosphere," notes Hazleton...
Emma Thompson has the sense to inquire. Does director Mike Nichols have the sensibility to hire? Word is out that casting for an upcoming screen version of the potboiling political roman a clef Primary Colors may soon begin. Thompson seeks the Hillary Clinton role, while Tom Hanks is angling to play Bill Clinton. Surely there's a role somewhere for Anonymous...
...courthouse skirmishing well enough but flounders when she tries to get a sense from her slippery client of what really happened. Although she is middle-aged, and maybe a bit lonely as well, White is too self-possessed to fall for this road-company Andy Griffith. Still, she does begin to think he may be innocent of murder. That impression grows when his girlfriend turns up. She is young and gorgeous, and as empty-headed as a golden retriever pup. Or so it seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories. But she is also...