Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that in mind, the most earnest student of history to inhabit the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson has surrounded himself with his predecessors. Clinton keeps at his bedside two old volumes comparing presidential campaigns so he can read them slowly and savor them; he has stocked the library next to the Oval Office with enough presidential biographies to make it what he calls "a history of the American presidency...
...Harvard's only Ivy performance had been an 80-55 trouncing of Dartmouth. However, going to Hanover on January 5, the Crimson (9-5, 3-1 Ivy) was shocked with a 57-53 loss. Harvard went into the weekend of January 9--in which Ivy League play began in earnest--hoping to decisively go over...
...debate about where Morrison ranks among the other American laureates will probably simmer for years. Does she belong with Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck, authors whose earnest social concerns and novels now strike most critics and readers as passe? Some reviewers have found Morrison's novels overly deterministic, her characters pawns in the service of their creator's designs. Essayist Stanley Crouch says Morrison is "immensely talented. I just think she needs a new subject matter, the world she lives in, not this world of endless black victims." But for every pan, Morrison has received a surfeit of paeans...
Trustbusters At the Gates The battle over the future of your desktop began in earnest today, as Microsoft mounted an abrasive attack on claims that they're in contempt of court. Full Story TIME: Target: Microsoft The Hearing Blow-by-Blow FORTUNE: Why America Loves Microsoft Netly News: Microsoft's New Humility
...YORK: Dark clouds loom on Wall Street, and the across-the-board bloodbaths this week means investors are getting inside. "Next week, earnings reports season begins in earnest," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz, "and there have been a lot of warnings of a lot of bad news, especially from the tech stocks." What's spoiling the mood? Asia. For a few days this week, Asia was looking up. South Korea was leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest...