Word: czar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each place setting was equipped with four--count'em: one, two, three, four--forks. There was a seafood flatula stuffed with fat shrimp, and salad made from what seemed like pesky courtyard weeds. To cleanse the palate of residual flavors, there was a trou normand lime sorbet. Dining Services Czar Michael Berry made the rounds, and a string quartet made stately, playing pieces by classical composers. But the kicker was neither the food nor the ambience. The kicker was the wine. three kinds. A hearty but slightly sour red, a 1991 white, and something called grenache. And so lots...
This month, the Race Czar will begin his search for students and faculty to be trained as conflict negotiators of the Harvard Mediation Service to ease racial tensions on campus...
...mediation service is the third step in Epps' plan to restructure the race relations bureaucracy. This fall, after criticism that he increased the red tape since he took over as Race Czar in the summer of 1992, Epps combined two committees into the Faculty Race Relations Advisory Committee to the Harvard Foundation...
...matter how much Western analysts support Russian economic changes, they have to admit the reformers have not proved themselves as politicians. Yeltsin chose to play the good czar in the December elections, remaining above politics. His lack of leadership allowed the reform forces to fragment and be swamped by such simplistic nationalists as Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Since the election Yeltsin has remained mostly out of sight, and when he appears in public, he seems stiff and slow moving...
This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin. Democracy lovers have been remarkably understanding as Yeltsin has shut down newspapers, produced a constitution out of his hip pocket that makes him virtual czar, forbidden candidates in the recent election to criticize his constitution on television, put off for years his own need to run for re-election and so on. This was all justified as an "interim" necessity in order to establish Russia on a democratic course. But if Yeltsin continues to govern in a style...