Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told her he had been busy "receiving condolences from all over the world...
...passage from honored guest last June to universal villain today has been abrupt. For a man given to feeling the pain of others, his initial damage control was not good. Touring tornado wreckage in Oklahoma the day after the bombing of the Chinese embassy, the President paused to offer his "regrets and profound condolences" but neglected to apologize. This was an insensitive lapse for the Chinese, who have rankled for decades because of Japanese politicians stretching syntax to avoid apologizing for their country's wartime aggression. With their prickly sense of national pride, the Chinese are quick to react...
...convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes online therapy not only ineffective but unethical and possibly illegal. But two UCLA professors, Marion Jacobs and Andrew Christiansen, plan to publish a study in the journal Professional Psychology this fall showing that...
About a year ago, we launched a new section called Personal Time, designed to offer our readers useful information and advice based on each week's news of personal finance, health and technology. The section has been a hit with our subscribers and our peers, who recently awarded national prizes to two of our columnists for excellence in service journalism and commentary. And this week we're expanding Personal Time with a fourth page called Your Family...
...Mike's and Amy's columns only whet your appetite for more, we also offer TIME for Families, an expanded edition of TIME that includes, six times a year, additional features related to family life. And each week during the school year, we publish TIME for Kids, the newsmagazine written especially for students ages 8 to 14. These extras can be included free with your subscription to TIME. Just dial 1 (800) 843-TIME...