Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team stumbled into control of the House after the G.O.P. had endured four decades in the wilderness not knowing such basic things as the name of the Capitol police chief. As a young legislator, he made his mark on the House floor after-hours, when it was almost empty except for the C-Span cameras. He was a grinning nobody, the head of a band of brothers called the Conservative Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like...
...Clinton is a prisoner of his appetites, Gingrich is a prisoner of his ego. He kept trying the same strategy again and again, drawing lines in the sand and waiting for his adversary to come across. Except it was Gingrich who always blinked first. In May 1995, when Clinton seemed at his weakest, Gingrich boasted to TIME of his plans to shut down the government and then wait for the President to come crawling, meekly accepting Newt's cuts in Medicare and other government programs. "He can run the parts of government that are left [after the cuts...
...into to any kind of specifics, except to sat that security on campus is important and the safety of everybody at Harvard is important and, we're assessing the best way to address their need," he said...
...much time does Glenn S. Jackson '99 spend in his Dunster House residence? "A lot," he jokes, "even though there are no books." Nor is there much of anything else--except a king-size mattress encircled by a room-spanning platform constructed to produce a completely sunken effect...
...Memorandum cannot be understood except in the context of the Oslo Accords which preceded it. The Accords were to be the actualization of the "land for peace" model which many thought would culminate in a Palestinian state. But in fact, the Accords set the framework for a very limited Palestinian autonomy, delegating to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) the dirty job of monitoring the activities of Palestinians and suppressing Palestinian struggle for true self-determination and human rights. Worst, the Accords gave the P.A. very little ability to improve the life conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza regarding...