Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Either you love them or you hate them. For the G.O.P., they are sacred. "The tax cut is the glue that holds together the coalition that balances the budget," says House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Yet to purist budget balancers, the cuts are heresy. "We see tax cuts as demagoguery. They take the public's mind off the real issue of sharing the sacrifice," says Michael Holtzman, director of the New York office of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition...
...sure to be bitterly attacked. That's nothing new for the maverick scientist (and, by training, doctor and lawyer), who in his fifth year as the U.S.'s top health official has achieved a rare combination of public controversy and political longevity. He heads the agency everybody loves to hate, yet he's outlasted most of his predecessors...
...living in a homogeneous and sheltered community. It has been truly vital for me to have taken residence in Cambridge and to be surrounded by communities which are rich and diverse and in which people of different incomes and classes interact, communicate and associate as neighbors. I would hate to see class barriers become strengthened around me; it would be an even more tragic loss to our local communities and to their residents. It would be a great misfortune to the city and to Harvard students like me who are so inspired by Cambridge's mixed-income neighborhoods as models...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOVING TRIBUTE to figure skater Sergei Grinkov [SPORT, Dec. 4]. I, like many others, knew him only through his performance, but I still feel a tremendous sadness at his passing. In this world so filled with violence and hate, Grinkov and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva brought sweetness and magic with them whenever they stepped on the ice. Watching them somehow made everything beautiful. If there's an answer to why so perfect a union should be ended, it will take a wiser mind than mine to make sense of it. If Katia decides to skate solo...
...couple of them--are an acerbic cyber-scientist and a lovelorn novelist named (hmm?) Richard Powers. A scheme that might seem mechanical and too clever works out instead to be humane and thoughtful and, when the computer is troubled by 3 a.m. brooding ("What race am I? What races hate me?"), surprisingly moving...