Word: brooches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are subject to the programs by knowledgeable consultants, they consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective...
...over the gifts Clinton had given her. She reportedly told Starr that the President had offered some incriminating advice: If you don't have the gifts, he said, you can't very well hand them over, can you? A box from Lewinsky containing a dress, a hatpin and a brooch later found its way into Currie's possession. She also reportedly told investigators that Clinton and Lewinsky had indeed been alone together...
...READ MY BROOCH...
...middle of her Star Is Born debut as Secretary of State, when the lights are brightest, Albright is the first to say that, yes, it's because she is a woman, but, she adds, it's also because of her story. She wears her biography like a brooch, a shiny tale of a refugee--first from Hitler, then Stalin--who fell in love with the country that saved her and fulfilled its promise of unlimited promise. But she has had reason to suspect for some years now that even she didn't know the whole story...
...Company and their guests with tales of Coast Guard glory. Aiming to start on a light note, Blanchard promised to "dispense with the political correctness" and opened with several risque jokes as guests finished their strawberry-covered cheesecake. Blanchard said he had seen a cadet's fiance wearing a brooch featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted to lay alongside.'" Then Blanchard offered one about his old buddy, Captain Patrick Stillman, the commandant of cadets. On Stillman's wedding night, Blanchard said, the captain told his bride...