Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first became interested in the world of mathematics. He pauses to reflect. Then he begins rocking back and forth in his chair like a bobbing pigeon. It is one of Kedlaya's tell-tale tics, as if the excess energy from his brain is powering the rest of his body...
...Massachusetts in 1636, the 29th year of his life. Married but childless, he died of consumption only two years later, leaving half his estate to a newly-founded college. As the Biblical proverb would have it, so long as Harvard lived, he lived alone. But in dying he brought forth great fruit...
This is not to romanticize the early 1960s nor to obscure either Kennedy's personal flaws or the fact that his actions sometimes didn't match his soaring rhetoric. But that rhetoric still resonates because it put forth a faith that the highest duty of government, and of us all, was to improve the common weal. It was rhetoric which helped energize the nation because it was spoken by a politician who said proudly that "I do have a great liking for the word 'politics'.... It's the way a president gets things done...
...ended with the Clinton-Gore campaign buying $1.2 million worth of ads that suggested to viewers that the only thing Bob Dole had done lately was "quit." And it climaxed with a bitter exchange over abortion, in which charges and countercharges over piety and principle flew back and forth with a startling ferocity. It became the week to talk about values, but the values most often invoked last week--like civility, decency, personal responsibility--were not much in evidence among their champions...
...people lined up before dawn for a lottery awarding the 48 seats available to the public. Even though there are no television or still cameras allowed in the courtroom, Japanese television stations preempted regularly- scheduled programming to broadcast all day from outside the courthouse. Reporters shuttled back and forth from the courtroom to give live reports in the trial. Much of today's session was taken up with the reading of the names of 3,789 victims. Tokyo correspondent Irene Kunii says Asahara dozed off at times during the reading. Asahara faces 17 charges, including last March's subway attack...