Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One might be tempted to write off Kosovo as just another Balkan bloodletting. But if the U.S. is to take seriously its credo of humanitarian intervention, politicians and the public need to understand how and why people in the supposedly civilized world fall prey to animal violence. Kosovo has bred...
Faced with the unpleasant choice between acquiescing to ethnic cleansing and paying in American blood to stop it, Bill Clinton characteristically chose "neither"--and characteristically seems to have lucked out. No doubt this is annoying to political opponents and unfriendly commentators who thought they had him in a checkmate. In...
The plight of aging inmates has its ironies. In prison they have virtually unlimited access to medical care, while ailing seniors who have walked the straight and narrow often do without because they can't afford soaring health-care costs. What's more, inmates who have spent 30 or 40...
The new-economy Net stocks are now up against some old-economy fundamentals they haven't faced before. Rising interest rates are a big deal. The 30-year Treasury-bond yield popped over 6% last week, its highest level in more than a year, and could well stay there. Speculative...
A 15-minute subway ride away, the lawn in front of Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre is plush, and the crowd seems plump with well-being. Alum Jerome Vered, 41, an HBO researcher, feels fortunate that he hasn't faced "a real curveball, like a spouse or child dying." Tamara Remy...