Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't seem to think he ought to be harrumphing from the floor of the House about what we're doing wrong as a people, or right. If you didn't know him, you wondered whether life had been too strange and soft to mold him into a harder person, one who could move into the world with force and meaning, marshaling all the things he had to make a difference. But that takes time. You wonder what he would have done...
...knew about the expectations, and one supposes they were the central trauma of his life. He seemed to hobble through the search for a while--actor, lawyer, person in politics. And then: editor. Of a magazine on politics. But one that treated politics as entertainment. As if he were detaching himself from the heaviness of political struggles, and the tragedies they can bring...
...driven to get better. And then when I knew I was getting better, I knew I was winning." His experience has made him "a better man, just like all survivors. I'm more aware of the things around me, and I'm more patient. I'm a happier person than I was before...
...your story that referred to me, "Why a defender of affirmative action is quitting," was misleading [DIVIDING LINE, July 5]. I remain committed to affirmative action because it works; it's fair and vitally necessary if we are to live up to the American ideal of giving every person a fair chance. I was proud to serve as executive director of Americans for a Fair Chance. My departure should not be construed in any way as a change of heart in my steadfast commitment to carry on the fight. Also, it is important to note that anti-affirmative-action initiatives...
...report notes that $570 million still hasn't been handed over because Haiti lacks the ministerial staff to draft programs for using the money. The report points out that 4% of Haiti's population still owns 66% of the country's resources, and annual income averages $250 per person, compared with $3,320 for the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Drug traffickers have also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15% of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former President JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE could profit...