Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACCRA: President Clinton launched his Africa trip in Ghana today, riffing on Martin Luther King?s ?I Have a Dream? speech but finding his Ghanaian audience a little too exuberant for comfort...
...conservatives are attacking Rutherford for what they say is his move toward the left. Two Christian radio networks have announced plans to drop Rutherford's daily radio spots; other groups have complained about Whitehead's sympathetic views toward gays. But with a trial now virtually certain, it's small comfort for Clinton that his tormentors are bickering among themselves...
...lawyers? Landow, who has raised some $600,000 for Clinton and Al Gore over the years, told TIME his only comment was "she should do what she felt was best for her." All in all, a very tangled set of allegations -- and whether true or not, there's little comfort for a President who professes himself "mystified and disappointed...
...formality in the performance of any string quartet (underscored by the tuxedos of the musicians and the gilded architecture of the halls they play in), the Guarneri String Quartet employs no formality that stifles the honesty and candidness of their personality. As each musician performed with ease and comfort, the second violinist, John Dalley even allowed himself to beam with a smile in some of the quartet's more magical moments...
...surprise, then, that we are so tentative to act out, even in the comfort and safety of 20 other women and inside the JCR? And that many of us, myself included, feel the urge to negate the size of our voices and actions by laughing at the ridiculousness of it all--as if to say, "Look, I'm still just a girl"? It is not an everyday occurrence to watch a woman take herself and her body seriously, to see a woman scream and whack things and not then make light of it. It betrays a strength and power most...