Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something far more unfortunate at work: the search for victims, not to be helped, but to be "bemoaned." From recent events, it has become clear that Harvard's activists are in danger of arriving at Augustine's "malevolent benevolence." While they should, like Augustine's truly compassionate person, "prefer that that which he grieves over not exist," they sometimes seem actively disappointed when no cause for sorrow can be found...
Bent's cumulative effect is an extremely heavy, painful and unhappy one. For those who feel that this is appropriate for a film that chronicles atrocity, it will undoubtedly be a fulfilling experience. But those who prefer to be entertained as well as educated may find something lacking. The acting is generally good; unfortunately, that's not quite enough to make things work overall...
...More than half of the respondents ? international business people all ? admitted to craving information, and to getting a "high" when they find what they're looking for through an on-line search engine. And the next generation could be even more addicted: Just under half worried that their children prefer computers to the company of others...
...jerky fanciers are mostly blue-collar types, some of whom buy tube-shaped sausages 14 in. long and weighing half a pound. But in Japan the yuppies who regard jerky as a prestige snack prefer comparatively dainty 6-in. pieces. "The healthy Midwestern appetite doesn't apply there," says Jay Link. Russians are just beginning to encounter beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks...
...afoul of the Republican Congress because like Clinton, he refuses to disavow affirmative action as a weapon against racial inequality. Which makes Lee's appointment critical if Clinton is to put any teeth into his recent mini-wave of civil rights and race initiatives. The White House would ultimately prefer to win it the old-fashioned way when Congress returns. But Clinton may decide that the best victory is always the surest...