Word: east
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...final agreement. President Clinton, too, should be commended for devoting extraordinary time and energy to this process. Whether his motive was the resurrection of his legacy or a genuine interest in peace, or a combination of both, he deserves the world's gratitude for helping to bring the Middle East closer to peace...
...Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry--the very hypocrisy that drove the latter many times to violently manic depressive breakdowns in various mental hospitals along the East Coast. However, Stuart sees the situation not as mentally debilitating but as a forum for exploiting her established sense of wry humor and caustically tongue-in-cheek comedy. In a sense, the psychiatrist's diagnosis at the end of the book is actually an excellent summation of the significance Stuart...
...these catalogues that the book isweakest; the chapters recounting the nomadicwanderings of Stuart's aunts and uncles--up anddown the East Coast, back and forth across theAtlantic--are entirely forgettable. Of marginalinterest in these lengthy dives into the past arethe glimpses of recent and not-so recentHarvardiana: contempt for the ghettos of NewHaven; romantic entanglements shot to hell over asquash game in Adams House; a complete mentalbreakdown in Lamont Library; a tour of a chintzyQuincy House bachelor pad belonging to her famedcousin; and of course standard turn-of-the-centuryRadcliffe gripes about having to settle forhusbands from the A.D. rather...
...first album, McGruff brings a new voice onto the East Coast hip-hop scene. The group, originally from Harlem, has a few memorable pieces that keep the album afloat, but fails to distinguish itself significantly through the course of the album...
...supposed to make President Clinton look good at home. Instead they threatened to plunge him into further domestic problems Friday -- especially with Washington's defense and intelligence communities -- after Israeli officials began spreading word that Clinton had agreed to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard as part of a Middle East peace deal. "The President can't really afford to release Pollard immediately without it looking like he was blackmailed," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clinton had rejected the Israelis' request to release him as recently as October 1 -- so there'll have to be some papering over...