Word: carterisms
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...wasn't expecting to catch more than a few cheap thrills: a Vince Carter facial here, an Allen Iverson crossover there. Yet what I saw on Sunday night was a new and exciting batch of superstars taking the reigns of basketball stardom from the old guard...
...talked to students about drinking, in the abstract," says Margaret Carter '96, a second-year resident tutor in Dunster House. "I've never had to personally implement the policy...
...half the time. Ever since Gerald Ford let Richard Nixon off the hook for Watergate, every act of clemency has been scrutinized. Still, each recent President has made a few controversial decisions. Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa in 1971, then received the Teamsters' endorsement a year later. Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers on his first full day in office. Ronald Reagan pardoned two FBI officials who had authorized agents to break in to Vietnam protesters' offices. But he resisted calls to pardon Iran-contra defendants Oliver North and John Poindexter...
Most Presidents are felled by failures of their office--Carter by the hostages, Nixon by Watergate, Johnson by Vietnam--but the Clintons have been brought down almost entirely by their sexual and financial escapades, the former his, the latter hers. Hillary's lapses have been explained away by her husband's low pay in Arkansas. Yet by most standards, the Clintons lived large in Little Rock; she was a partner in one of the city's leading law firms, they called the Governor's mansion home, and had only one child to put through college. Still, she got the family...
...Presidential" is an elusive quality that is much in the eye of the beholder. Like pornography, you know it when you see it. Jimmy Carter, whatever his earnest virtues, was seen to be, on the whole, unpresidential - he never recovered from the killer rabbit and the time he collapsed while jogging in the Catoctin Mountains; on the other hand, Carter is splendidly ex-presidential, a category he invented...