Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eighth grade, when the school held a father-son night, John's companion was Roosevelt Grier, the former football star who in 1968 had tackled Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. But John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack...
...hungry for a foreign policy triumph. Barak is also eager for a fast peace, before a White House change of guard disrupts Washington's ability to facilitate new deals. Throughout the trip, both sides insisted that Barak's election signaled a departure from the obstructionist policies of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After the first meeting of Clinton and Barak, the President told aides Barak was a leader "who will be scrupulous in terms of living up to his obligations." The unspoken appendix: "unlike Netanyahu...
Kennedy could be affable and accessible, then capricious and enraged--all before lunch. "He was a little insensitive," says a former staff member. "It was his signature project, so he reserved the right to change anything around at the last minute." Bent on proving himself a serious person, he failed to take advice from more seasoned magazine people. "Sometimes he wouldn't see things that had the potential to make a very bad article." The product suffered, turnover was high, and ultimately the magazine ran into financial trouble...
...students simply don't have the resources to continue fighting, so the legal challenge to the administrative board proceedings is going to be withdrawn," said David E. Kelston, who represents one of the former members of the Class of 1999, Valentin Dinu...
Sometimes it is good to laugh, and at other times it is good to simply have a comfortable chair. It might be hard to find the latter in the old-timey Hasty Pudding Theatre, but the former will be in happy abundance as of tonight...