Word: leaderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger had been rushing around, thinking detail. Checking off extra bombing options. Tweaking instructions to the U.N. envoys. Fine-tuning the perfect strike against the Iraqi leader who has bedeviled the U.S. for eight long years...
...earth's atmosphere, these gossamer giants (as tall as 60-story buildings) will remain aloft up to 100 days. That's enough time to look for such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant X-ray sources: "For some science, they're going to give the shuttle or space station a run for the money...
...Thomas, Madison and Eston all ended up as freedmen within 25 miles of one another near the town of Chillicothe, Ohio. The brothers were quite fair, being only an eighth black, and Jeffersonian in appearance: tall with reddish hair and gray eyes. But Thomas would become a leader in the black community, founding an African Methodist church. Madison put down roots near a mulatto settlement and also stayed in the black community. "Though we consider it a gift of God, our one enduring question is why Madison chose to stay black when it might have been easier to live...
Most of the Nation's 31 Republican Governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma's Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is JIM NICHOLSON, the G.O.P. party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...want to stay home Wednesday. They're scheduled to travel to Istanbul for a European Cup clash with their Turkish counterparts -- but in light of the anti-Italian fervor sweeping Turkey's streets, Rome has advised its citizens to stay away. As if Turkey's freeing of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan weren't enough to inflame Turkish anger, on Monday the Italian prime minister told Turkey to make peace with the Kurdish separatists and accused it of "systematic violations of human rights." That won't raise the prospects for soccer diplomacy...