Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hillary Clinton isn't the only member of the First Family considering a makeover. President Clinton, in an effort to improve his governing skills, has been meeting with personal-growth consultants of varying degrees of New Age- iness. A dossier...
...records -- including medical and financial data -- while challenging North to do the same. That would remind voters that the former Marine officer was hospitalized 20 years ago for emotional stress. The ploy also revived rumors, which North denies, that he somehow expunged mention of that therapy from his Marine dossier before he joined Ronald Reagan's National Security Council staff...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...
...Cubans silently refer to their supreme leader, Fidel Castro. The woman down the hall reports regularly to the local block committee about her, says Ana, "because I am not a conformist." She finds peace in her Bible, though her faith has earned her a black mark on the dossier that follows all Cubans from childhood to death...
Raul, 28, cadges meals from his mother when he is not selling goods a friend steals from a state factory. Although he speaks three languages, he cannot find work either, because his history of alcoholism is duly noted in his dossier...