Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps. But I haven't thought of anything better. Law school is too predictable and boring. Investment banking is too corporate and stressful. Med school would have to wait until I take my remaing pre-med requirements--all six of them. Grad school sounds just plain miserable. World Teach demands thousands of dollars up front for the privilege of working as a teacher...
...theme of Clinton's Washington tour was "I'll keep in touch" -- with the plain folk who helped carry him into office, with the Democrats on Capitol Hill who have been out of favor for years, and even with the Republicans who now find themselves in a distinct minority. It won't be easy: upon Inauguration, Presidents-elect slip helplessly into the protective cocoon of White House and Secret Service agents whether they like it or not. But certainly the speed with which Clinton moved about the city indicates that he will be, if anything, an even more energetic President...
Whether they plan on studying, sleeping, or just plain gobbling, a number of undergraduates say they will not let the exodus of their fellow students spoil their holiday fun this Thanksgiving...
Earlier this year, The Cleveland Plain-Dealerobtained a Justice Department memo in which adifferent prosecutor asked Ryan to pressure theSoviet Union for information about Ivan Marczenko,now widely believed to be the real "Ivan theTerrible." It is not known whether Ryan, in aJanuary 1980 trip to Moscow, asked Sovietofficials about Marczenko...
...toss in the CIA, the military-industrial complex, or little green men -- oops, vertically challenged other-pigmented males -- from Mars? Perhaps some imitator of Oliver Stone is waiting in the wings to do just that: there are truckloads of Basquiat works in Beverly Hills. The plain truth -- that Basquiat killed Basquiat, that nobody but he was sticking the needles in his arm -- is not going to get much airing at this solemn farce of heroic victimology...