Word: millenniums
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These are biblical times. The turning of the second millennium has brought war, rumors of war and all sorts of neo-Jehovian high jinks. Our leaders are plagued by enemies and temptations that have turned out to be divinely revelatory. Bill Clinton-the exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativism-was brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his debauchery yielded more profound character flaws: his tendency to lawyer the truth, pity himself and blame others. And George W. Bush? This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series...
...suspend the elected President on the flimsiest of pretexts. Officially, the offenses for which Roh is to be tried?and for which he is already being punished?are some otherwise innocuous comments about the upcoming April 15 National Assembly election. Roh, who had renounced his membership of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party last fall, let it be known that he hoped candidates from the Uri Party would do well, and that he thought he might eventually join that organization. Lawmakers were shocked?shocked!?that the President would dare sully the nation's pristine electoral process through such nefarious interference. Their...
...Berger believed al-Qaeda was the greatest threat facing the U.S. as Clinton left office. Rice thought China was. What were President Bush's priorities? Was he aware of the Berger briefing? Did he consider an aggressive response to the bombing of the Cole or to the al-Qaeda millennium plot directed at Los Angeles International Airport--which was foiled on Dec. 14, 1999? Did he have any al-Qaeda strategy at all? Rice, who has not yet testified under oath, decided to review counterterrorism policy; the review wasn't completed until Sept. 4. A related question along the same...
...President couldn't muster the votes to fend off impeachment. Roh isolated himself politically last fall when he bolted the ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) after a period of strained relations with party leaders. Last week, MDP lawmakers teamed up with legislators from the conservative GNP to oust him. Knowing they would lose a vote, members of the pro-Roh Uri Party?which holds only 47 of the Assembly's 273 seats?tried to block the March 12 balloting by forming a human shield around the Speaker's podium, hoping to prevent him from taking his seat and calling...
...February ? Roh is sworn in as the country's ninth President, succeeding the founder of his Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), Kim Dae Jung...