Word: caste
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...Bayreuth audience is unique. Every one of the 1,925 seats is occupied by someone who knows his Wagner and has cast-iron confidence in his opinions. This summer has been the hottest in a century, and the theater is not air conditioned. While the music plays, the crowd sits still and silent; a sneeze brings savage stares. At the curtain call, though, reaction is unbridled. Virtue is rewarded with thunderous stamping on the wooden floors; lapses with lusty booing...
Kirsch said that that attitude is typical in America and has helped cast Generation X in negative light...
Roelle's statements to Senate investigators also cast doubt on the curious contention by White House officials during the House hearings that they were entitled to otherwise confidential information about the Madison probe because they would have to deal with "press inquiries" about it. Roelle indicated in his Senate deposition that he reported to Altman in September not in response to press inquiries but because he had learned from a regional RTC office that the criminal referrals were going forward. Indeed, the first media story about the referral did not break for another month...
...interns' experiences have cast new light not only on journalism but sometimes on their studies as well. Chitralekha Zutshi, a recent graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Kanchan Chandra, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard, have been researching, writing and fact checking for TIME International's Milestones section. "In academia facts are subordinate to theory," says Chandra. "But after this, I'll never be able to look at facts the same...
...Richard Gephardt, and a Senate plan from Majority leader George Mitchell that effectively drops employer mandates. Since the final package will be a compromise, nervous House members, many of whom face re-election in November, will be watching to see which way the political wind's blowing before they cast votes on the Gephardt bill Aug. 19. "People in the House are wondering why they should make a hard vote," Thompson says, if the Senate refuses to produce legislation that looks anything like the House version. Bills that become laws, of course, require a House-Senate compromise, which...