Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diana's greatest excitement in life was meeting movie and rock stars: loving pop culture from the top down, just like the throngs who flock to movies and concerts would love to do. And when Diana's marriage failed, she spent a great deal of time talking about how ill-treated she was, just as so many plebians like to feel wronged in life. After all, playing the victim allows one to deny one's own failings...
...many of us specialize in public policy, criminal defense and pro bono work. Ingrid Olsen-Tjensvold, counsel to the Cortland County, N.Y., department of social services, is deeply rewarded by "having a hand in keeping children safe from harm." Margaret Brown White works with the worst of the mentally ill and finds it "rather extraordinary work," a compelling witness to "the effort, against such obstacles, that people make every day to stay connected to life." Connected is a word...
Which is why his response to the latest White House blunder says so much about Bill Clinton's presidency now. Four years ago, a staff member would rather have resigned than be the one to tell the boss about the ill-timed release of the videotapes made of Clinton's coffees with big-money donors. Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment. "He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much...
Rags-to-riches stories don't come any better than Robert Johnson's. The ninth of 10 children, he grew up poor in Freeport, Ill., earned a place at Princeton and worked as a cable-industry lobbyist. He founded BET in 1980 with $15,000 in borrowed money, convinced he could mine gold from ore that others had found less rich. Marketers have known forever that black consumers have a ton of money at their disposal--$425 billion annually--and are quality conscious and extremely brand loyal. Johnson not only created a brand, BET (Black Entertainment Television...
...matter whether the money is hard or soft, or where the phone call was made, or who placed the call. Only the amount matters, because that determines the extent to which our democracy is nullified and the degree to which our votes are negated. GERARD C. LAMMERS Oswego, Ill...