Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's a tricky distinction in the Jones case, in which just about everything is embarrassing to the President. In any normal lawsuit, right about now would be settlement time--when all the main parties have been deposed, and each side can assess the other's chance of persuading a jury. But in Jones v. Clinton, winning or losing may have nothing to do with what a jury decides and everything to do with how much pain each side can inflict on the other in public. Clinton would probably win the customary agreement that neither side divulge the details once...
...Pope doesn't seem to care anymore what he looks like or how he walks and talks. "Se crollo, crollo [If I collapse, I collapse]," he barked at aides who recently suggested he skip a few of his normal appointments. He shrugs off suggestions of retirement with a joke: "Who would I give my letter of resignation to?" John Paul is determined to lead the church into the next millennium, says Richard John Neuhaus, an American priest and author recently in Rome. "He's not hesitating to exhibit his physical frailties," says Neuhaus, "which I think is intended both...
...innate, deep-seated fear of them. But in one of the biggest surprises of the week, Kaczynski agreed to be examined in order to prove that he could represent himself, thus putting himself in the position of a defendant who is probably mentally ill trying to appear normal so that he can escape a mental-illness defense...
...their mutual-fund balances too often and lose patience too soon. But my guess is that this year's most popular gaffe will be the way investors categorize in their mind the past few years of robust U.S. stock gains. Some lost souls will view the spoils as perfectly normal and expect more of the same. God bless them. But even those with a sense of history may regard the period as merely unusual when, in fact, the stretch is unprecedented...
...prospect of headless human clones should put the whole debate about "normal" cloning in a new light. Normal cloning is less a treatment for infertility than a treatment for vanity. It is a way to produce an exact genetic replica of yourself that will walk the earth years after you're gone...