Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain kind of overachiever: a woman who can talk about school vouchers, Medicare Part B and the Third Way of post-cold war politics but who didn't see the 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...
...That idea--that it was never about her--had always been some comfort in the face of Clinton's infidelities. One friend, at least, says Hillary has never thought of Clinton's dalliances as a commentary on their marriage. Never. "It doesn't occur to her that he doesn't love her," she says. She sees his sexual escapades "as a weakness, a vulnerability, the stuff of junior high school. And as a very small part of his life." And that's why, over the years of rumors and revelations, Hillary was not fundamentally insulted by it. "She doesn...
...Pentagon went after the bigger things--like missile factories and the Special Republican Guards--vital to the weapons' protection and production. And there was another wrinkle: while Pentagon officials said they avoided hitting storage sites that might spew deadly plumes of toxins, they privately conceded they had no idea where such stockpiles might be even if they wanted to attack them...
...York LBO firm he co-founded, spent a year canvassing the country, examining local school districts--the program will serve 40,000 students in 38 cities--and cajoling everyone from Michael Ovitz to Barbara Bush to join the fund's board of advisers. He got the idea for the venture after years of studying a similar financial-aid program in New York City. Nine out of 10 school kids who used money from the fund to attend private schools, he says, went on to college...
...country in Africa called Sudan and the thousands and thousands of people, mostly women and children, who were being traded as slaves there. Recalls Vogel: "There was terror and disbelief in their little eyes." Says Brad Morris, 11, who was in class that day: "No one had any idea that slavery could still be going on anywhere in the world. We decided to do something so it wouldn...