Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, another example that left me questioning his sensitivity involved his treatment of the Jim Crow laws. In lecture, Thernstrom stated that Jim Crow laws were partially established for the protection of Blacks born after 1890 who had not been socialized by subordination, broken into the system, and were therefore...
Until Blandon, Kalish and others provided direct evidence of Noriega's criminal activities, American officials were divided over what to do about him. As early as 1972, a U.S. narcotics agent proposed his "total and complete immobilization" -- meaning assassination. But the agent's superior rejected the idea. Last March, when...
Des Moines, this week, is a city of anxiety-filled foxholes. For the eleven campaigns in both parties actively contesting next Monday's Iowa caucuses, the emotions shift with each rumor, each leaked tracking poll, each new television commercial. Campaign chiefs monitor news reports like CIA analysts poring over satellite...
Somehow, with all the electronic attention, the presidential race has been odd, difficult to grasp, even obscurely depressing. Bush and Rather last week enacted a dispiriting shadow play that made one nostalgic for some other time when, one imagines, presidential candidates had more size, and the waters of intelligence ran...
The following July, Bush and his chief of staff, Craig Fuller, met in Jerusalem with Amiram Nir, an adviser to then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Nir was helping to arrange the arms sales to Iran. According to Fuller's detailed account of the meeting, Nir told Bush the deal was...