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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEY ARE THE FEW AND THE proud, the long gray line, the Spartans. They practice what they call, in a phrase silky with unexamined assumptions, the manly art of war. They see themselves as pursuing a higher calling in terrain where rights matter less than responsibilities, where the individual must give way to the corps...
Borrowing Ross Perot's favorite phrase, Clinton promises a "world class" economic team, but the entire arrangement will founder if the traditional "first among equals" doesn't get with the program. Here is a brief look at the leading candidates for Treasury Secretary and their strengths and weaknesses...
Professors too easily reduce the movement's entire Black nationalist strain to a single person. This person is then dissembled into a single phrase ("By any means necessary") and finally into a letter...
Second, both pieces of legislation were framed to invoke the idea that voters were merely choosing to cut off special privileges awarded to gay people. Colorado's legislation obscured its true message of legalized discrimination with a phrase about "quota preferences...
There is also ample evidence that Americans are ready, even eager, to hear some of the hard truths that inform a yearning for change. It was a year, to borrow a phrase E.B. White used to describe a contentious New England town meeting, "when democracy sat up and looked around." Part of Ross Perot's appeal was his rapid-fire, flip-chart manner of laying out the bad news that Bush and Clinton did not want to discuss...