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...predecessors--F.D.R. and Abe Lincoln in the early days of his Administration, when greatness still seemed possible; Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes more recently, as the truth set in. He once asked his adviser Dick Morris to rank him among the Presidents ("You are right on the cusp of making third tier," the consultant replied). And early this year, buoyed by his balanced-budget agreement with Congress and the success of welfare reform, he began trying to stake out the meaning of Clintonism, promising that 1998 would be a "year of vigorous action [to] shape the century...
...announced the honor. "Bernard Bailyn is one of America's most eminent historians," Ferris said. "His main work, on the ideas and beliefs that have shaped the American nation from the beginning, is an excellent context for taking stock of our nation's heritage as we stand at the cusp of the new millennium. I am delighted to name him this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities...
...silly things. In the 1980s it led them to pay ridiculous prices for stocks and real estate, and the fever spread from Tokyo to Bangkok. But even after the Japanese bubble burst, the experts on the Asian model justified similar excesses around the region because we were on the cusp of the Asian Century, one of limitless growth. The vaunted technocrats thought--or perhaps hoped--that they could once more invoke the Asian model to wipe away the looming mess. Only recently have most governments admitted that there is no easy...
...fame), on the other hand, is a smooth talking well-dressed I-banker in London. Wallace decides to drop in on his brother for his birthday (thankfully Gallagher saves us a reprise of his recent flop To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday). The brother, James, freaks, being on the cusp of a multimillion dollar deal with the Germans" (soon virtually every nationality's stereotype will be played out). He decides to send Wallace out on an evening of participatory theater, "The Theater of Life...
...footlights." Shortly thereafter, on July 29, 1981, Diana stole one of the grandest shows of the century in a wedding that marked her as both impossibly glamorous and a kind of universal Every Woman. TIME wrote in its walkup to the nuptials: "This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand [in which] the future is assured and everyone can be queen...