Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gaudy mansion of Clinton's mind there are many rooms with heavy doors, workrooms and playrooms, rooms stuffed with trophies, rooms to stash scandals and regrets. He walks lightly amid the ironies of his talents and behavior, just by consigning them to different cubbies of his brain. It's an almost scary mind, that of a multitasking wizard who plays hearts while he talks on the phone with a head of state, who sits through a dense briefing on chemical weapons intently doing a crossword puzzle, only to take reporters' questions hours later and repeat whole sections of the briefing...
...cheating on solemn commitments, rejecting Saddam's claims that his vast, fortified "presidential palaces" should be off limits to weapons inspectors because, after all, "we're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved," you had to wonder, What was weighing most on his mind...
Grim and desolate: that's both Iraq's landscape and its state of mind. The once proud city of Baghdad wears the rags of poverty: marble chipping off the extravagant examples of modern architecture built in an era of prosperity, doors and window glass for sale from middle-class villas, grime and time eating away the old tenements of the poor. Everyone in the streets looks shabby and tired. You see few smiling faces, and only the black-market profiteers and smugglers are well dressed. Sandy dust coats everything in a city slipping back into the desert...
Though schools are asking parents to foot part of the cost of laptops, they don't seem to mind, so far. Many feel a computer at home will give their kids a leg up, or at least an equal footing, in class...
...ripped off here and there when I was younger... So I told Lauryn nobody is going to tell you anything in the recording industry. So you have to investigate a lot, you have to surround yourself with good people, managers, agents and such who have your best interests in mind. I also thought her generation should give our generation a big party--annually--because we put out so much information for them and they are capitalizing...