Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really think he could win? "This is an object lesson in how difficult it is to fend off this media hunger for investigation into private lives," says Branegan. "[Former Clinton press secretary] Mike McCurry called it 'telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician swears by ? full, early disclosure is the only smart play anymore ? until it happens to them. Bush?s Pandora?s box is mostly open, and he?s caught in the worst of worlds. He?s essentially admitted...
...What does this mean for the Linux community, an informal, international fellowship of benevolent hackers who since 1991 have labored unpaid to develop the perfect microcomputer operating system? Until now, they've done it for the purest of motives ? because it was fun, and because it was useful. Now unexpected success has brought other motives into play, and nobody seems quite sure how to deal with them. MORE...
...Other snippets mention "toodstools, hookahs, harts and hares", "rabbits and hatters, queens and hearts, " but few details have been revealed, and the production is being carried out with an unusual level of secrecy. McGee spent four years at id Software, the phenomenally successful Texas-based game company that has done more than any other developer to simultaneously push the boundaries of game technology - with such groundbreaking titles as Doom and Quake - and the industry's tolerance for bloody, ultraviolent content. MORE...
...Problem is, it's hard for Bradley to draw stark contrasts with Gore, who was cheered wildly by the Rainbow on Saturday. Bradley said he wouldn't try to reverse welfare reform but would look for ways to "improve" the bill. That's what Clinton and Gore have already done. And Bradley's argument that the welfare bill "cuts the bonds between mother and child" by requiring single mothers to work after two years did not go over well with working mothers who had to go back to their jobs after six months. "Every working mother," Bradley said after...
...volunteers are also watching other preconceptions crumble. As white churches work with black families and black churches adopt whites, suspicions float away. "I've been in government for 25 years," says Leon Love, deputy director of community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...