Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began, as one Dole aide put it, "to flip out." G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour thought Dole would be foolish to offend loyal gun owners (and big-time contributors) in order to court a larger audience. And when House Speaker Newt Gingrich got wind of Dole's plan just after breakfast, he was furious. Dole had once promised Gingrich to repeal the ban, and now here he was, promising to uphold it. Gingrich telephoned the campaign and demanded that Dole remove the offending sentence...
...boys are burnished; they are like angels, you know, and they float around the world." It is likely that during his five years there, Wills won't have too much time to think about his battling parents. His day is a strict drill. Up at 8, compulsory chapel after breakfast, classes all morning. A lengthy sports session follows, and afternoon classes start at 4. The traditional university prep subjects are required, but some outre electives like Swahili and cooking are offered. There is also counseling for boys whose parents are divorcing. Britain has the highest divorce rate in Europe...
Most believe that meals are a time to socialize and to get to know your fellow first-years better. That is a load of guano. Ever heard of a power breakfast or a working lunch? You don't have to wear a three-piece suit or be a CEO for DuPont to have these important meals. Learn to do your CS 51 problem sets over Fruit Loops and Expos papers over fries and sloppy joes. If you can do that, you will have the evening free...
Scalia's siege mentality was manifest in his speech this spring at a Mississippi prayer breakfast. "We are fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world," he declared, explaining that in educated circles Christians are regarded as "simpleminded." The speech echoed one he gave last year at Princeton University, where he maintained that his views on the proper role of judges were regarded as "simpleminded" in "sophisticated circles...
...General Lebed and Yeltsin's security chiefs. No one heard the reports. Villagers who did learn of the Kremlin intrigue seemed to find it less gripping than the Brazilian soap opera they had watched the night before. Igor Dudinsky shrugged off the radio reports as he tucked into a breakfast of cream cheese and fish soup. "The devil knows what that all means," he said...