Word: graced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proclamations over the past few years has been any sense of personal culpability for the tar pit that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are as responsible for Malaysia's fall from grace as any of the wretched excesses of Western investment capitalists. But now, Mahathir has in mind for Malaysia a resurgence that not only restores to his people their achingly recent prosperity but forces a cataclysmic readjustment of the way the West would have emerging markets run. In short, Mahathir Muhammed dearly...
...they came into the crowds, Chelsea was, perhaps for the first time since her public life began six years ago, on center stage. She smiled with grace. She worked the rope line. She knelt and talked to the children, a bright-eyed American echo of other countries' princesses. No matter what designs lay behind those pictures, what sympathy they were designed to generate, there were some undeniable realities. The night before, she had had to watch her father admit to something hideously painful. It may not have been a surprise to her, but that makes it no less...
...moment the Spin Decade ended. Clinton's sharpest sword has always been his ability to persuade. And even as the speech approached, it was hard to know whether to root for or against the man from Hope, to wish that he might seize what the office affords him in grace and redemption: to apologize and, with just the right mix of candor and contrition, to make himself new again. Or wish that he wouldn...
...President--and those who think this fate goes with the job. Presidents aren't like kings, but they aren't supposed to be like the rest of us either. The office confers a mystic expectation, a combination of Roosevelt's brains and Johnson's clout and Reagan's grace, that helps Presidents persuade Congress and the people to follow their lead. The agony of Clinton's choice was that his best chance for survival demanded that he declare himself less than we expect a President to be and more like the rest of us after...
...cold sweat. This movie should be seen only by people who are desensitized to violence and those who don't appreciate what all those who have fought in wars have sacrificed. Spielberg has constructed a compelling and serious wartime reality, the likes of which I hope will never grace the screen again. RONALD L. TARTAGLIA Boston...