Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken in the park that night to see if Jewell can be spotted placing the bomb. While no evidence of Jewell's involvement has surfaced, there is some circumstantial evidence available. Jewell owned an olive drab backpack similar to the one seen containing the three pipe bombs, and apparently fits the FBI profile of the bomber. Says TIME's Elaine Shannon: "They don't have a whole lot of evidence on him yet, but it may come pretty quickly. Still, they're not breaking out the champagne yet." In 1984, a Los Angeles policeman planted a bomb...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole's pile of potential vice presidents is growing, and the latest to be added is Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a man who seems to fit the bill on just about all the dream qualifications: a young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has a solid conservative record on both social and fiscal issues; in 1992, he served as platform committee chair at the Republican National Convention and helped defeat an effort by moderates to soften the party's anti-abortion platform plank. But Nickles' abortion stance apparently has not deterred him from reveling...
...Grille a few too many times, so the watering hole pickup scene was not too appealing. I'd grown up in Baltimore, so the monuments were the stuff of my junior high field trips. Excuses aside, I was afraid of this thing called Culture, doubting I'd fit the bill. I couldn't imagine having to pick out a skirt in the morning that was long enough for work and short enough for Happy Hour. I was not going to succumb...
...first glance, the Bowling Alone thesis would seem to fit neatly with the post-'60s outlook of conservatives who believe an overweening central government is like a great tree whose shadow does not allow civic engagement to grow underneath it. But Putnam's thesis, as Nicholas Lemann wrote in the Atlantic Monthly, also has had an appeal for liberals exhausted from their battles to keep federal money flowing into their programs. A revival of civic engagement, Lemann pointed out, doesn't require spending money or raising taxes, yet it satisfied the liberals' yearning for social activism. And it relieved both...
...conservatives who are busily rearranging the deck chairs of decline are missing a new reality--that Americans are redefining the forms and nature of their engagement. Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton sociology professor, suggests that Americans are eschewing large bureaucratic organizations like the Red Cross for smaller, flexible ones that fit their life-style. "Civic participation has become more diverse and loosely structured so people can move in and out of issues and organizations," he says. Tocqueville saw in the American character a divide between individualism and communitarianism. Americans today are still trying to find their way through that ancient divide...