Word: fortnights
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...from just a rally condemning violence against women, Take Back the Night has always, in the words of one now-departed campus commentator, amounted to "a militant feminist yahoo festival." And, despite claims of ideological neutrality this year, Take Back the Night has offered for all comers a fortnight of feminist reeducation. (1992's keynote speaker and slideshow performer was National Endowment for the Arts poster-womyn Karen Finley, perhaps best known for adorning herself with chocolate and alfalfa sprouts, as well as "...yams ...candies...tinsel...
While his advisers drew a new battle plan for the fortnight after South Dakota, Kerrey went south to deliver what an aide called "a real hit" on Clinton, the favorite in the Georgia primary scheduled for this week. A Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in Vietnam, Kerrey berated his rival for failing to be candid about how he avoided military service. That makes Clinton unelectable in November, Kerrey insisted. In an awkward affectation of Southern folksiness, the Nebraskan predicted Clinton would "get opened up like a boiled peanut" by the Republican President. But Clinton barked...
...Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville's opening ceremony this Saturday, the Olympics will take off into the wild white yonder of Val d'Isere, Courchevel and other mountaintop resorts. "I would like people to go home feeling that they spent a fortnight on another planet," says Jean-Claude Killy, ski-racing legend and co-president of the Games...
George Bush looked more than a little relieved. After two years of stalling, his top aides had finally worked out a civil rights compromise with Congress -- and none too soon. Bush hardly relished the prospect of vetoing a civil rights bill in the same fortnight that the Senate nearly disintegrated over the Clarence Thomas nomination and an ex-Klansman named David Duke became the Republican Party candidate in Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff...
Nothing, Samuel Johnson once remarked, so concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in a fortnight. In the Middle East, the approach of a peace conference has the same effect. As Secretary of State James Baker took off last weekend for what he called his final swing to nail down arrangements for the gathering that will at last bring Arabs and Israelis face to face, those two sides were anxiously bumping and jostling each other...