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...were the members of SAC. In fact, SAC discouraged more than casual involvement from any undergraduate. SAC discussions were secret, as were the conclusions reached at the meetings. The most desirable lunches and other meetings were reserved almost exclusively for SAC members. It is no wonder that most students drift away from the IOP after their freshman year...
...Files, now in its eighth season, the drift had arguably already set in. It was among the most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody...
...Especially when 50 percent of the former has a part of its daily wealth riding on the latter. The drift of the Dow and NASDAQ has been cited as a possible predictor, even a determining factor, of a national election meant to set a course for a full four years, which is quite a large sample of what used to be called the business cycle. Yet at election time, a voter can use the markets to sample his own heart; after all, every investor would prefer to vote with his broker's blessing...
...drift toward a dispiriting conclusion. Watching the documentary, I was struck by the intelligence in Kennedy's and Nixon's eyes - very different forms of intelligence, of course, but two different expressions of the real thing. Kennedy and Nixon both had terrible defects (more than anyone knew at the time). Kennedy's beautiful facade concealed a weirdly reckless sex life and potentially fatal disease (Addison's). Nixon had his own shadows (less well disguised...
...Barak's domestic political weakness is forcing Barak to act tough, and he's now considering a unity government with the Likud party who've opposed the peace process all the way. And the mounting violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is a frightening portent of the drift of Israeli domestic politics...