Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Randomization is in fact one of my top personal priorities. The effects on students who have been quadded, on minorities, and on all students who are experiencing house life in a very different way are elements of a system whose fate has not yet been entirely written. And because randomization impacts every crevice of the student body, every perspective is needed, every bit of ideological diversity is a necessity...
...Clinton brings. "She's using this incredible political capital she has right now to help the President with the audience that counts: lawmakers," says Tumulty. Schumer, of course, will have a chance to return the favor; he sits on the House Judiciary Committee, in whose hands the President's fate now rests...
Strange to say about a man who manages to become President of the United States, but Bill Clinton has been an offhand custodian of his fate. Again and again, he drifts into crisis, blames others, wakes up at last and then scrambles to his own defense, a defense in which, sure enough, he's sinuous, subtle and dazzling. This is what happened in 1980, when he lost his first bid for re-election as Arkansas Governor, then struggled his way back to office two years later. It happened again in the presidential election of 1992, when his past kept getting...
...fate of Bill Clinton and his Administration will be determined by a complex debate among these zones. We are watching multidimensional chess to try to figure the king's chances of survival. If Clinton's presidency can be saved, it will happen because two very different dynamics--forgiveness and, surprisingly, popular indifference--will interact...
...doesn't embrace the viewer in a weave of words, images and music. Nevertheless, the series will seize the interest of any intelligent person who watches it, and it will help explain to him or her how it is that we are all still around after the fate of the earth for so long seemed uncertain...