Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment the mad boss steps off his Air China jet in Los Angeles this week on the first stage of a scheduled American tour, he knows he will be in the cross hairs of U.S. anger at China's dismal human-rights record and allegations of nuclear espionage. "Let [Americans] vent their anger," said Zhu in a press conference last month. "I will go to tell the truth...
...some advantages to this issue. Husband Bob has been a strong voice in favor of military action, and she came out in support of the air strikes right away. In a speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on Friday, she was able to remind her audience that as a former Red Cross chief, she has been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets to include...
...nothing else in more than a decade. In the past three months the issue of sweatshop labor has sparked student sit-ins at Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin. Backed by unions and human-rights groups, students on more than 50 other campuses from Harvard to Holy Cross are circulating petitions, picketing college bookstores and launching websites calling for "sweat-free" clothing. At Yale, students held a "knit-in," doing needlework in the center of campus, and at the University of California at Santa Barbara, they threw a mock fashion show, lecturing on sweatshops while parading down the catwalk...
When I was "Little Johnny Hendricks," singing in Toledo, Ohio, in the late 1930s, JOE WILLIAMS was attracting attention in Chicago, where he had come up as a small child from "Go North" Georgia, as Joseph Goreed. Though our paths didn't cross till later, each of us knew what the other was doing. After the war he started sitting in with the Count Basie septet, and Basie hired him as a vocalist. Every Day made Joe an instant star. His voice was a magnificent instrument. It had everything--range, tone, vibrancy, sweetness--it was just mind boggling. He turned...
...didn't get a tan and I didn't get blasted in Cancun, but I had a blast," says Brendan G. Conway '00, a government concentrator in Leverett House who interned with the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C, through the Harvard College Internship Program (HCIP...