Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task, only to end up in the same compromised position. Soon Clinton is calling her at night, when he needs a break from the budget or national security issues. The President is not worried. This is a special line, reserved for private calls. No one's listening. The security detail is out of earshot--or an agent has been paid off or warned to keep these chats private. As the sexual escapades continue, Lewinsky begins to want more. To appease her romantic side, Clinton has aides buy her presents, including a dress. Things are progressing smoothly until something happens. Perhaps...
Pentagon officials aren't happy about a report they have to deliver to Congress on March 30 about the military threat Cuba poses to the U.S. The report, ordered by Florida Senator Bob Graham, must detail whether Havana could attack American territory with chemical and biological weapons. Why the worry? Cuba has no such weapons, and the Pentagon has withdrawn forces from southern Florida because it no longer considers the island a military threat. But the report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: Knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1) flunking out; 2) doing work; or 3) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...message about the car: "It fits your life or the complete lack thereof." The spot breathed new life into its sound-track song, a 1982 release by the now defunct German band Trio. It also created bumper-to-bumper parodies that replicated the ad down to the most minute detail, with everyone from Jay Leno to Bill Gates taking a joyride in a Golf...
Legal maneuver and political maneuver, the dank gloom of the prison into which the Africans are crammed, awaiting their fate, an astonishing evocation of the terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame...