Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gandhi's image as being above the rough-and-tumble of India's fractious coalition politics had suffered after she led the party in maneuvering to bring down the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in April, but failed to secure the necessary votes to take power herself. With few significant policy differences between the two major parties, September's election will be all about Sonia Gandhi. The Congress party has used the mythical power of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to rally jaded voters, while Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist party has vowed to make Gandhi's origins the centerpiece...
Because Latin pop draws from different cultures, it also has the power to bring people together. "Latino people have a golden key in their hands, a common treasure," says Colombian-born pop-rocker Shakira, 22, who is working with Gloria Estefan to adapt her acclaimed 1998 Spanish-language CD Donde Estan los Ladrones? into English. "That treasure is fusion. The fusion of rhythms, the fusion of ideas. We Latinos are a race of fusion, and that is the music we make. And so at the dawn of a new millennium, when everything is said and done, what could possibly happen...
...runs throughout her work. Unlike Bruno Bettelheim, whose classic work The Uses of Enchantment puts a Freudian gloss on fairy tales, Warner believes the stories "represent a way of thinking about problems, particularly family problems: intimacy, sexuality and practical areas like money, dowries, property and hierarchy--who has the power to free women from their poverty?" In her new book she examines the way fear and pleasure have become intertwined, as horror films and books about serial killers become increasingly popular. "Our monsters," she says, "are of our own making...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] "Parkinson's Power Team" May 15, 1999 [MODE] Hiking, biking and kayaking [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 90 miles a day for 121 days [THE CAUSE? Parkinson's disease PREPARATION] Followed Olympic training schedule for six months
Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...