Word: echoing
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...interviews the rappers play hide-and-seek, sometimes claiming that the tough-guy poses are just the work of artists assuming a character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...
Next week, when many school-board seats are again contested around the country, the right will be looking for signs that their grass-roots strategy is having a reverberation nationwide. Even if the echo proves disappointing, the Christian foot soldiers plan to continue exploiting dissatisfaction with the nation's schools in hopes of finding common cause with moderates and conventional conservatives. Looking ahead to more significant electoral battles in 1994, when voters in Idaho, Colorado and Arizona will address education issues at the ballot box, Ralph Reed, executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, vows, "We'll be there...
...Thursday Clinton met in the morning with congressional leaders, who engaged him in spirited but mostly constructive debate. The most common complaint was that the U.S. had no vital interests in Somalia; Clinton replied, in an odd echo of the kind of arguments he might surely have rejected as a Vietnam War protester, that the vital interest at stake was the credibility of American power: the U.S. could not just cut and run. Leaving the meeting, some lawmakers gave reporters the idea that Clinton would delay his projected speech to the nation -- which prompted the White House to hurry...
...located "in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" and that it therefore fell under the jurisdiction of the state law amendment that prohibits underage possession of alcohol. This alone is testament to the University's reluctant attitude toward the new policy. Officials' statements on the policy so far only echo such reluctance...
...created equal" or "Liberty, equality, fraternity" or "Workers of the world, unite!" Certainly the image of Rabin and Arafat, once implacable enemies, standing together on the White House lawn captures the drama of the moment more vividly than these words. But the Arafat-Rabin letters will echo loudly through history precisely because of their practical quality. War cries tend to strident emotionalism, while bitter enemies feeling their way toward reconciliation speak wisely in tones of caution. In this case the very flatness of the words was reassuring; Arafat and Rabin had left themselves no room for ambiguity, evasion or disavowal...