Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This growing ennui is making the press more desperate than Bob Dole. About this time in a campaign we journalists are usually worrying about having sunk too low; instead, we fear we've risen so high we're being ignored during our quadrennial chance to show off. For a brief, shining moment we had Dick Morris: since then, nothing. After the second debate, where Jack Kemp, the designated slasher, came off more like Barney than Freddy Krueger, even Ted Koppel gave up. "Here we have one of the most civil debates in history, and we can barely stay awake...
When it was all over and she was back in London, says Armstrong, she was so stimulated by the Genesis stories that she wrote a book. In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (Knopf) is a brief survey of the tales through the prism of Armstrong's strongly held views about God's ultimate unknowability and the folly of some current denominations in second-guessing him. It joins the works of other Moyers panelists that collectively illustrate the rabbinic adage "Turn it, turn it, everything is in it." Two are new translations: Alter's (Norton) and a more selective...
...Gene Map Web site, which is hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology information at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., gives a brief description of The Human Genome Project and an explanation of the gene map. With the click of a mouse, each chromoseme is pictured with the sequenced genes and information about what traits those genes code...
...almost an hour, I felt downcast and angered. But I was also curious. What were these people like, who would address someone they did not know in such callous terms? Why me? Were Brian and Adam really two different people? Tempted, I sent back a brief reply to Adam, stating that his problem was a lack of love and attention...
...negatively to knowing that they are training and living in intimate environments with gay men. As Thomasson expressed in his appeal, the foundation of the policy is "the expected adverse reaction that some heterosexual listeners may have" to discovering the homosexuality of members of the armed services. In its brief encouraging the Supreme Court not to hear the Thomasson appeal, Clinton administration justified the policy in the name of military effectiveness. Included was a statement by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell to the effect that "the cohesion and well-being of the force" would...