Word: finely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education to investigate. Jacobs says Alison should be held up as a model for challenging accepted practice and sparking debate, no matter how sticky the issue or unpopular the cause. Instead she is bad news in a town that got along fine without her. School officials argue that race relations are good, that all students are fairly represented and that other schools use similar systems. As one teacher put it in a TV interview, "It's just always worked...
...days of televised hearings about adultery or anything else sensational before the Senate. And so the chances of Ralston's securing the nomination seem to be in a fatal dive. The Pentagon is screening a handful of new candidates for the post, examining their backgrounds with a fine-toothed comb for any sexual improprieties. The last-minute choice can only hope he has a history but no past...
...energies have some mental-health professionals more than a little concerned. "Couples relationships are incredibly complex," says Anna Beth Benningfield, president-elect of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. "To tell a couple to go read this book and do this one thing and you'll be fine is very misleading...
...four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be fantastic or melodramatic, lighthearted or soul-splitting; the people in them may look exotic and speak other languages. Yet compared with the heroes of U.S. films, they are closer to us--almost inside us. They offer artful lessons in getting through a summer, or a life...