Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Higginbotham, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, will be remembered for his work in championing civil rights...
...will bump along toward the bogus destination called "closure." The two parties will resume their Balkan comity; Republicans may even learn not to think "liar" every time the President speaks. And after my indignation stops screaming, perhaps I can learn to be civil as well. My fury will burn itself down to coals and ashes. But thanks to Bill Clinton, something in public life seems changed--and something else permanently lost...
...disastrous fate of her comically ill-conceived health care reform crusade sent her approval ratings into the gutter. Her much publicized role in the callous firings of the civil servants in the White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...
...deal on 80's American TV movie soundtracks--lotta ominous synthesizer chords ganging up on people onscreen without warning sometimes--but, no worries, don't stay home because of that. Stay home if you're expecting anything other than a couple of needy people, one alcoholic (always recovering), one civil servant, trying to match up. It's rough--not stylized--but real. Subtitles and film quality make it feel once in a while like documentary, but a good one. The comic voice finds vent on occasion, too, fortunately not through concerted effort, soccer uniform jokes and all (though the line...
Director of the Office of Human Resources Diane Patrick will officially be leaving Harvard this spring, now that the confirmation of her husband Deval as assistant attorney general for civil rights is secure...