Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychological implications of taking her family along on her honeymoon; who thought it would be a good idea to toughen up six-year-old Chelsea at the dinner table by telling her all the terrible things being said about her father; who didn't know her close friend Vince Foster was in trouble until the day he shot himself. "She has always thought psychological analysis for her was kind of a petty self-indulgence, says one of her closest friends. "She's not interested in it. It's not her thing...
...first time she showed a real curiosity about psychological pain was right after Foster's suicide in 1993. She picked up books about depression and started to think of the subject as a real disease. Tipper Gore, for one, helped with Hillary's education in this regard, as did some clergymen, says a friend, whom she consulted about the roots of Bill's recklessness. She hoped to convince herself that "it stems from his screwed-up childhood and his own insecurities, that this is not about...
Political character assassination was alive and well long before cable TV and the Internet. Forget Vince Foster conspiracy theories--1860s Republicans charged that Johnson, when he was Vice President, aided in Abraham Lincoln's assassination so he could move up to the top job. Monica Lewinsky pales beside Jennie Perry, who blackmailed Johnson with charges that he fathered an illegitimate son. And Johnson's critics claimed he was conspiring to help the defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, elected Governor before...
...Congress, the governors argued that the issue wasn't that they wanted higher taxes; rather, they wanted equity. They supported development of the Internet, viewing it as a powerful tool for economic development and opposed new taxes on the Internet to foster continued business growth and electronic commerce...
...union among undergraduates. During the elections, a senior, campaigning on behalf of two running-mates, accosted me outside the Science Center and literally followed me all the way back to my dorm, along the way playing up the merits of both his candidates and the community they would ostensibly foster. When I asked him why community matters so much, he alluded to the many cases of suicide and depression students in the College suffer. Fair enough, but I don't think any student government could relieve academic burnout or loneliness with more forums in Harvard Hall. Nor do I think...