Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is wrong with the U.S.? Have we fallen so low that we now accept abject amorality in our nation's most honored position? People should be outraged! Starr's report confirms our suspicions that the President has disgraced himself, his office and the ethical traditions that have nurtured this Republic since its inception. President Clinton should resign immediately and bring this sordid episode to an end. J. WALLACE DAVIES Anderson...
...behalf of women sports fans everywhere, I object to Daniel Habib's sexist and insulting depiction of the relationship between men, women and sports (Opinion, Oct. 2). As I initially glanced at Habib's headline and first few paragraphs, I smiled with recognition. I, too, have fallen victim to the dangerously time-consuming condition of baseball playoff fever, this year and every year. Habib dropped the ball, however, when he embraced stereotypes of sports fans as exclusively male and women as sexual objects competing with sports for men's attention...
...preceded by the most hype. It's a drama about a college freshman, played with glowing naturalness by Keri Russell, who has impulsively chucked aside the plans her parents made for her in order to follow a boy she hardly knows to New York City. Anybody who has ever fallen in love with a stranger and wondered what might have happened if the infatuation had been acted on will find Felicity's premise tinglingly evocative. That, combined with polished execution and an enormously appealing cast, may make the hype prophetic rather than a curse...
...invention of the Aqua-Lung freed humanity to wander underwater, and his more than 150 books, films and TV shows enabled millions of people to accompany him on voyages of discovery. But since he died last year at 87, the task of carrying on Cousteau's mission has fallen to rival successors whose infighting threatens to cloud his vision...
...while polling has inflated people's belief in the power of their opinions, the mechanism for making those opinions felt--voting--has fallen into disrepair. The percentage of Americans who vote in midterm elections is particularly low. It has been dropping for decades, and some analysts predict that this November it will fall to a record-setting...