Word: newsweeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the new concern about President Clinton's campaign fundraising and with the general fear about the First Lady playing any sort of policy role, the First Daughter, Chelsea, is being heralded as the best of the Clintons: cool, poised and classy, as Newsweek put it a few weeks ago. Cool, poised and classy. I didn't remember hearing these descriptions four years ago. And I was right...
...four years ago, we are left to wonder what has changed. Has the media turned over a new leaf? Or has Chelsea herself changed? One sentence can answer all our questions. Last year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three years...
...seems to me that this limited, minimalist view of language leads to more "opposition" than using language to describe other languages, as Ms. Barenbaum fears, because it keeps language bounded and discrete. I hope Ms. Barenbaum does not propose that speakers of Ebonics found a newsmagazine to rival Newsweek to cover Ebonics and thus avoid "opposition...
Despite the uncertainties and unsavories of Ritalin, over one million children currently take Ritalin to counteract the manifestations of ADD. In a recent Newsweek article, Dr. Laurence Greenhill of Columbia Medical School called Ritalin "one of the raving successes in psychiatry." Parents everywhere are seeking a mandate from medicine, taking unmanageable children to doctors who tend with very little resistance to diagnose them as ADD and put them on a regular diet of Ritalin, sometimes supplementing the prescription with Prozac...
...race is a nebulous concept, racism remains a concrete reality. Cose, author of A Nation of Strangers and The Rage of a Privileged Class and a commentator for Newsweek, confronts this most sensitive of American subjects with a mix of think-tank analysis, anecdotal journalism and cautious Utopianism. Before he is through, however, his lofty vision of a color-blind society has been modified into a 12-step program for a "race-neutral" nation...