Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the beginning, during the pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to...
"[The Core] sounded better, it sounded more demanding," Martin says. "It sounded as if it would create a more well-rounded intellectual life than what we had under Gen Ed."
During his time at UPI, Mack says one of his most memorable interviews came when he was awakened by a six o'clock phone call in a New York City hotel room. The call came from UPI, demanding that he interview former President Harry S. Truman, who was staying in...
Most explosively, the series suggested CIA complicity in, or at least knowledge of, the operation. Hyped by provocative headlines (the series was titled "Dark Alliance") and splashed over the Internet (accompanied by a logo that superimposed the CIA's insignia on the image of a crack smoker), the story was...
You said President Clinton "must choose between making history and smoothing the way for Gore" [NATION, April 28]. But it would be a mistake to ascribe any of Clinton's quixotic policy shifts to a desire to advance Gore's candidacy in 2000. Quite possibly Clinton and Gore have the...