Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsibility seriously. It has voted to impeach only one President and 15 other men--13 judges; President Ulysses Grant's Secretary of War; and Senator William Blount of Tennessee, who tried in the 1790s to get Indian tribes to invade Florida and Louisiana (then owned by Spain), kill a bunch of people and force the survivors' allegiance to Britain. Inciting transcontinental war--now that sounds like an impeachable offense. Alas, it's a long way from President Clinton's alleged lies about Monica...
...while the discovery of fiction in several national publications is pretty unusual, we should not look at those disparate troubles as the symptoms of a more widespread disease in today's newsrooms--a few bad apples don't necessarily tell us much about the rest of the bunch. The real scandal, at least as far as journalism is concerned, was the very thing that kept those troubles in several newspapers and magazines from attracting more attention: the press's painful over-coverage of the great presidential pitfall. And that over-coverage was made possible by a substantial threat to journalism...
...York Times went back to Broad Channel to assess the community's reaction. "Those guys on the float, I know they play with the colored people," said one Broad Channel resident. "It was all in fun. I wish every kid in the Channel could grow up like that bunch...
...This was a bunch of black guys who were supposed to be drunk coming back from a basketball game," said another 43-year-old man. "Where was that racist?" Obviously President Clinton's now-forgotten national dialogue on race hasn't yet been taken up in Broad Channel...
...People's Republic of Massachusetts, then went on to the Kremlin and ended in Ireland. Not once, though, did he hit a pure, clean high note. In Dublin he finally coughed out an "I am sorry," but grudgingly, as if he were repeating something for a dense and demanding bunch of whiners...