Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he checks in with his closest friends, some of whom are dismayed by Gore. "People wind him up," a Clinton aide says. In those conversations the President starts feeling sorry for himself and lets it rip, saying he brought Gore to the dance, plucked him from certain obscurity and lifted him up. These are nasty venting sessions, done and forgotten by the next day, but they have occurred often enough so that they leaked to the New York Times...
None of this is to say that Passions is devoid of promise. Indeed, there are flashes of a certain kind of genius in the first episode alone, which has a self-exiled Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) in France visiting Sacre Coeur every day to mourn the loss of her best friend. That best friend was Princess Diana, who we now learn was on her way to visit Sheridan when she met her ill fate in that Parisian tunnel. The show doesn't make clear why this information never surfaced on Hard Copy...
...Germany's technical-aid agency, and INRENA, Peru's natural-resources institute, the Matsiguenkas hope to profit from tourism without destroying their own fragile way of life. Contact between tourists and themselves is kept to a minimum; photography is curbed; and tour-group access is limited to certain locations and times of year. The operation is run by a small group of Matsiguenkas, some technical advisers from GTZ and a hired administrator who collects payments. Profits go entirely to the Matsiguenkas to be used as they choose. So far, that has been mostly for medicines, farming tools, food and clothing...
Wise views animals as autonomous creatures entitled to certain fundamental rights. But he believes the current legal system is outdated and as a result, unable to adequately address animal rights issues...
...certain point the University loses its grip on you," Silverglate added. "And we claim that the University lost its grip...