Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Society editor last spring. Since then, he has overseen covers that have examined the ethics of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's euthanasia campaign, the culture of violence in America and the anguished battle over Baby Jessica. "Politics and science and business often deal with complex issues," says Chua-Eoan. "I prefer stories that focus on human lives and emotions. They are simpler and yet more enigmatic...
...even with the best possible staff, NASA has a problem it never faced in the free-spending 1960s. Nowadays, every new mission has to be sold to a skeptical and tightfisted Congress. The agency has found that legislators -- and the aerospace contractors who lobby them -- prefer big, complex projects that promise spectacular scientific returns. These also carry the greatest risk, but NASA has understandably played down the chance of failure. Perhaps it's time for a more sophisticated approach: the men and women who run the nation's space program could take a lesson from the politicians and learn...
...where could he be sent? Egypt has put in only a quarter-hearted request for extradition; Mubarak would vastly prefer to have Abdel Rahman in a U.S. prison than on trial in Egypt, fluttering terrorists' hearts. The sheik's lawyers have talked about having him go voluntarily to Afghanistan, but no one wants to see him free in that hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. Mohammad Mehdi, head of an Arab-American organization, predicts that "the sheik is going to be our guest in America for many years." Fine by Washington, as long as his guesthouse has bars on the windows...
...They prefer softer names, like Islamists or fundamentalists, but these were trained killers. They loaded their bomb on a motorcycle and slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...starring the estimable Seana McKenna, formerly a jewel of Stratford, plus a novel Saint Joan that turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Newton is also directing a Victorian melodrama, The Silver King, presented as a Dickensian panorama. The other novelty is Carl Sternheim's 1911 satire of German bourgeois class anxiety, The Unmentionables, adapted to McCarthy-era America. The laughs it now evokes are mostly sentimental recognition for bygone jingles...