Word: questioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's no question that people need to settle into their routines," he says. "No matter how hard you plan for these things, it's hard...
After he found it one night last week in Goffstown, N.H., a student stood up and accused him of hypocrisy: Why does he take truckloads of money from the communications industry he regulates as chairman of the Commerce Committee? People in the room couldn't hear the question until McCain said, disarmingly, "You'd better use the microphone--I think you've gotten to the hot part." The guy asked if McCain would pledge to accept no money from industries he oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because...
...whose name would come first? In staking his claim to leadership, McCain has never had a problem of lack of intellect or discipline--despite graduating fifth from the bottom of his Annapolis class with a bushel of demerits--but rather of temper and temperament. The question exploded last week in newspaper stories, most notably a blazing Sunday editorial in his hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, damning McCain as a bully, sarcastic and insulting. His personal story, in this view, becomes his burden, with the suggestion that the fighting spirit that allowed him to resist his North Vietnamese captors has left...
...seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen winter. If anything, though, that fear may propel them to accelerate the timetable of their Chechnya campaign. So the question may become not whether the Russians plan to capture Grozny, but whether they're prepared to pay the price for holding...
...question is whether schools will agree. Religion is an issue many school districts don't want any part of, since feelings run so hot on the issue and courts have traditionally given a strict interpretation of the Constitution's separation of church and state in the classroom. But the new booklet draws its inspiration from the most famous ruling on the subject: a 1962 Supreme Court ruling that, while it banned school prayer, did say that the Bible could be included in school curricula if taught objectively. "After the 1962 ruling a lot of administrators, just...