Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transition--some of us got an education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
...effect of last week's maneuvering was to leave the candidates only inches apart on welfare: both would require recipients to go to work after two years; both would cut off all benefits after five years for the able-bodied; both would crack down on deadbeat dads. And both would allow states to cut off payments to unwed teenage mothers. So much consensus, however, may be bad for real reform: now that it's no longer a defining issue in the campaign, it probably won't go anywhere anytime soon...
Some of the recent disputes have indeed been about making money. The U.S. has charged China with failing to live up to its pledge to crack down on the piracy of American computer software, films, music and other intellectual property. Rightful owners of the copyrights claim they are losing an estimated $2 billion a year. The U.S. has warned that if the Chinese government does not close the pirate factories, Washington will slap an extra $2 billion tariff on imported Chinese goods. Beijing is threatening to retaliate in kind, and there is worried talk about a trade war, though veterans...
...stab at writing, directing and starring in his own movie. He's wrapping That Thing You Do, with (clockwise from top left) ETHAN EMBRY, STEVE ZAHN, TOM EVERETT SCOTT, LIV TYLER and JOHNATHON SCHAECH, the story of a rock band in 1964. (You were perhaps expecting vampires and crack?) "There was a lack of cynicism," says Hanks of that era. "In 1964, everybody still believed in the carousel of progress." Directing has given Hanks a new appreciation for acting. "If you squint your eyes as an actor, it looks like you're on vacation. You're in a trailer, people...
...problems are as deeply rooted in the colonial relationship between the city and the Federal Government as they are in the policies Barry pursued during the first three of his four terms as mayor. Nor does the case against him rest on the fact that he was caught smoking crack in a Washington hotel. No, the problem is that black Americans can no longer afford to invest their dwindling political capital in elected officials such as Barry, whose erratic performance in public office and soap-operaish private life lend support to the most racist assumptions about black incompetence...