Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trust committee, which will distribute anywhere between $15,000 and $20,000 a year to student groups interested in women's and gender issues, may still be dominated by students--Avery says student representatives will outnumber faculty by as much...
...last chance to reach agreements. But Arafat and Barak are still haggling over a small parcel of Israeli-occupied territory. Albright wants to stay out of petty real estate disputes and keep Barak and Arafat focused on resolving bigger questions. But the men still distrust one another so much that it's hard to see how they'll reach a final accord. "We're still in an environment where problems are a certainty," says a senior U.S. official...
...will a candidate go to prove he's worthy of a vote? A long way, it seems. And now that McCain's campaign has released 1,500 pages of the senator's exhaustive medical records, some would-be voters are wondering if they really needed quite so much information about the presidential candidate. Public airing of certain tidbits, like the fact that the senator from Arizona uses a nasal spray for his seasonal hay fever, or that he had a herpetic lesion on his genitals (which disappeared without treatment!) may help to dissipate fears of lingering problems brought...
...public is largely convinced that complete disclosure somehow precludes any nasty surprises down the road, we want desperately to believe that we can know everything about the people who are running for president. And we've also convinced ourselves that it's our indisputable right to uncover as much as we can. And in the current, vaguely McCarthy-esque era of the public "right to know," we can rest assured that someone like FDR - whose physical health was in sharp decline and whose marriage was tortured - will probably never again make it past the New Hampshire primaries...
...revolutionary way to improve student performance (drum roll...): make sure they go to school. With a National Education Goals Panel report released last week declaring that the nation is behind schedule in its stated aim to improve schooling, mayors across the country are concluding that you can't learn much or graduate if you don't show up. Thus, more and more cities are taking a get-tough approach to battling poor performance - and arresting kids who play hooky. While the approach is too new to claim major academic victories, it is paying some early dividends. In L.A., for example...