Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's initiative on race can reframe the national discussion in a manner that places us on the road to healing. The nation needs to look at some cold, unpleasant truths about its past, but also about its present circumstances if we are to have a twenty-first century free of racism. In order for that to happen, however, President Clinton and his advisers will have to speak candidly on a subject where the most politically palatable or ideologically safe ideas usually trump even the most obvious social facts. Noble intentions and great initiatives notwithstanding, I fear that the depth...
Republicans are hardly unhappy to see Clinton in his present predicament. All the same, they are in no hurry to move to an impeachment inquiry that could carry as many risks for them as it does for him. Clinton's approval rating is at an all-time high. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll last week, it reached an upper atmosphere 79%, a number so tall that White House aides are playing it down because it only invites future headlines about Clinton's approval rating dropping. What it means for Republicans is that any impeachment proceeding would be a complicated...
...wrestled with such issues as what to do if the President dies and how to deal with masses of dead or severely ill citizens, considerations reminiscent of civil-defense planning for nuclear war. The planners are so certain that another worldwide epidemic will occur that they refer to the present as the "interpandemic period...
...hoped from him anyway. Sure, his skating would have been incredible to watch on the Olympic-size rinks, but his comments about not feeling very Japanese might not have played well, and his lack of stage presence might have worked against the flashy image the NHL wants to present. That's partly because he looks less like an athlete than that guy from your computer-science class. He's so small he was told he could never compete with tough guys like Suter. Although listed as 5 ft. 11 in. for his entire NHL career, Kariya admitted recently...
...pick for the top job, is unlikely to disappoint. He knows a deal that ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that?s just window dressing. The secretary general hinted at the real deal when he said the document mentions sanctions -- and looks down the road toward lifting them...