Word: protractedness
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It's easy to forget that the Gulf War isn't over. Since the mother of all battles ended in apparent success 10 years ago this month, the U.S. has been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of...
Last week New York's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, proposed doing just that, calling on the city to add a sixth day of school for nearly 84,000 struggling students. California's Governor Gray Davis made a similar move last month when he asked his state to extend its school year...
With a few exceptions, whatever lasting effects this protracted election has will likely be, well, useful.
"Democrats hoping to tilt Florida to Al Gore," reported the Associated Press on Nov. 10, "scoured the state for examples of alleged election irregularities." Hence the parade of Gore supporters eager to testify on camera to their inability to read a ballot. Hence the sit-ins and demonstrations, the legal...
As the nation lingers in the throes of a protracted presidential election, the Institute of Politics (IOP) faces its own political crisis. Having been told they may lose the authority to appoint their own leaders, student members of the IOP met last night to decide what role undergraduates should play...