Word: correspondant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target only the top 10% of white students," explains Claire Gaudiani, the school's president. Public school teachers select the students and accompany them to the campus for two weeks of classes and counseling. In order to maintain the students' interest in college, professors and minority alumni will correspond with them throughout high school and hold twice-yearly "reunions...
...autobiography. "I had the illusion of indispensability," she explains. Her job was to assemble all the on-the-record material about Watergate and the Final Days -- an assignment that led to some tense moments with the former President. But she does not regret the experience (she and Nixon still correspond regularly): "I knew that being out there with him was going to be a seminar the likes of which one could never attend. I had a real sense of the Shakespearean, dark history that I was going to be a minor character...
CLEARLY, the plan does not correspond to the reality. We are now left with the disturbing question of whether Israeli intelligence is completely unrealistic or smarter than we think...
Furet views contemporary France as a "republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...
There are unwritten rules of etiquette for a Vice President's wife that correspond roughly to the antebellum definition of a lady: her name should appear in the papers only on the occasion of her marriage or death. Barbara Bush adapted well: she did good works quietly and kept out of the public eye. Marilyn Quayle is already hard at work following in Mrs. Bush's footsteps. But the outspoken and confident lawyer turned housewife may have a tougher time keeping a low profile. Marilyn Tucker Quayle is anything but self-effacing...