Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly disruptive Republican John McCain stood on the Senate floor last Wednesday, stared down his colleagues and accused them of honoring their debts to Big Tobacco over their obligations to "those who can't care for themselves in this society, and that includes our children," the few G.O.P. statesmen present sat silent while Democrats across the aisle stood and applauded. McCain walked out of the chamber...
...question "Why are your problems so much bigger than everyone else's?" with the earnest response "Because they're mine." When Ally gets any work done, how she keeps her job, why she thinks it's O.K. to ask her secretary why she didn't give her a birthday present--these are all mysteries. Ally probably wouldn't seem so offensive as an addition to the cast of Seinfeld, but because this is a one-hour drama filled with pseudo-Melissa Etheridge music and emotional pretense, we are meant to take her problems more seriously than George Costanza's. "Ally...
Several months later, the Harvard Club ofAustralia organized a large ceremony at SydneyUniversity to present Sykes her official degree.Although it was too difficult for an aborigine toreceive a high school diploma one decade earlier,Sykes defied the odds and graduated with a mastersand doctorate from Harvard University...
...after the other schools changed their policies, I have friends who went elsewhere and more that did not even bother to apply to Harvard because of the financial aid policy. But I do not want to attack Harvard; rather, I want to try to present the case for change and a few possible solutions...
...legal actions against the Clinton Administration. Once a relatively obscure trade lawyer, he now goes after anyone he thinks might know something, anything about the skulduggeries he feels sure the White House is behind. Making the most of the rules of pretrial discovery, Klayman has subpoenaed such past and present Clinton insiders as George Stephanopoulos and Paul Begala--as well as such bewildered small fry as Begala's assistant--subjecting them to protracted depositions at which his questions are, to say the least, wide-ranging. (He demanded that one recent target disclose the name of his cats.) In his free...