Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...names won't be printed on the invitations to his March fund raiser in New York City. And with Gore clinching most traditional donors, Bradley has been forced to depend on the untried millions who have never given. It's another valiant but perhaps vain strategy, and it may explain why Bradley says he can mount a credible campaign for as little as $15 million...
...else to explain President Clinton's State of the Union address, which sounded like it was patched together from the "comments" section of focus group feedback forms? How else to explain the Republican Party's voluntarily throwing away two House speakers and the 2000 election? And most of all, how else to explain the fact that our President is currently being impeached, and no one seems all that concerned...
...well be that Fosse's dark sensibility will prove even better suited to the '90s than it was to the '70s. How else to explain why theatergoers are cheering a plotless show without a single love song, an evening-long shudder of disillusion in which the women are hookers, the men pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil...
...Encarta Africana's 3,361 articles, you'll stumble across a series of video lectures that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...
...trying to change his mind. "It's been a tough week," says Kathy Dreirer, whose daughters attend the principal's school. "The big thing at our house is lying," Dreirer says. "The kids ask, 'Why can the President get away with it, and we cannot?' I can't explain it. So I have to tell them, 'Because we're not his parents...