Word: failed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps that's the irony of the Clinton presidency, and the lesson too. Having campaigned in 1992 to make grand changes--only to fail--he ran in 1996 promising to tinker at the margins--and won. And that show of modesty, however carefully staged, was enough to convince a majority of voters that maybe he could now even be trusted to do the big things. He passed the test. As a result, the first Democrat in two generations to win a second term may actually have earned the chance to make some history...
...Begay argues that these rates fail to reflect that far higher numbers of Native Americans actually enter higher education--and then drop out. He says this is because many Native Americans are only beginning to feel comfortable in an alien educational system...
...better or worse, war is a mediated experience to us. Our sentiments about it are formed with reference to secondary sources which, as in academe, are fine for analytical purposes but do little to highlight the gritty substance. They fail us in our inability to author a new military resolve. This was apparent yesterday, Veterans Day, which translated for students into a day's break from classes. Our communal "celebration" of this civic holiday did not truly honor any present fighting honor guard nor salute the efforts of past American military men and women...
...name of mainstream Americans. As a combat veteran--he served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars--he backs a strong national defense but also wants to crack down on inefficient Pentagon spending. His most dramatic proposal: to deprive the President and Congress of their full salary should they fail to pass a budget by Oct. 1 each year...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Our representatives become a burden to us when they fail to legislate with civility, integrity and compromise...