Word: odyssey
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...Starr's odyssey from a federal appellate judge known mainly to Washington insiders to a symbol of the Clinton's impeachment crisis began in 1994, when a three-judge panel asked him to become the independent counsel charged with investigating the Whitewater land deals and other matters...
...recommend Martin Duberman's Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey to O'Donnell so that he may understand that homosexuality is not a choice (any more than heterosexuality) and that people like Duberman tried a number of unsuccessful "cures" due to the shame he felt about...
Chen has come of age in the course of his long odyssey. He cannot hide his pride when he says he will keep sending money to support his family in China, even after he has paid off his debt. For the time being he works with 17 other Chinese, all from Fujian, as well as five Bangladeshis and one Indian--not a green card among them. Finding proper papers will come. "I haven't had time to work that out yet," he says, implying it will not be that hard. Meanwhile, he is trying to learn English...
Hertsgaard's most recent book is Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
...first of these shows, "Survivor," is currently in production and slated to begin airing on a weekly basis starting Wednesday, May 31. Jeff Probst, of VH-1's "Rock & Roll Jeopardy," will serve as the host of this island odyssey, whose motto is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." In mid-March, sixteen castaways (eight men, eight women) were dropped on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. They must build their own shelter and gather their own food. They are allowed only one "non-survivor tool" from home, like a picture or a hairbrush, but nothing else. They will have...