Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a bomb, courthouse," it says. In the event, people evacuated from the courthouse were led directly into the street where the car bomb stood. TIME London Bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says it is quite possible that the terrorists intended to target the courthouse, "drove round for a bit, couldn't find a space, and parked in a different street." Such actions will require one heck of a Real explanation...
...spend a dead day staking out the White House. But America needed -- it deserved -- some substitute for the tears. If not a palpable display of emotion, then something lofty it could cash in for seven months' of bottom-feeding. Something to conclude the transaction. Clinton needed just a bit of eloquence to show that he meant to take charge again not just of his life but of the nation's. This time, sadly, the President who can talk his way out of anything, said nothing...
...trailed by two assistants, one of whom records his escapades with a digital video camera. Buffett follows this routine on every stop of the tour. This afternoon the footage will be cut at a backstage editing suite, then projected on giant screens during the show--a canny bit of marketing that appeals to the fans' civic pride. Buffett rides by the Heinz 57 factory, rows up the river on a mahogany scull, goofs around with some preschoolers and winds up at Kenny B.'s Eatery, a downtown Cuban-American diner...
...bit of history: For more than three decades, something called the Overlap Group, a collaboration of financial-aid officials from the Ivy League and a few other top private colleges, compared notes on scholarship applicants to equalize aid offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely...
...shouldn't be that way. A child's claim on a mother--or father--should be every bit as unambiguous (and unbigamous) as the marital claim two adults make on each other. Except in cases of abuse or neglect, once that claim is forged, it should be unassailable. Kids know who their parents are; we should...