Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A Grader This letter first ran on January...
Until last week, gentle ponies and Fair Isle sweaters represented the Shetland Islands: comforting symbols of a place of untamed beauty. Now Shetland is distinguished by 619,000 bbl. of spilling oil. The tanker Braer, owned by a subsidiary of a U.S. firm, ran aground Tuesday after its engines failed during a storm. A few hours before the ship hit the rocks, helicopters took the crew off, so no one was aboard to secure a line to a rescue tug. As rough seas kept salvors from pumping off the remaining crude, the slick threatened to kill thousands of birds...
Ironically, she was doing a pictorial essay on love when she encountered a terrifying scene. "I was living with a wealthy Westchester couple, and one night I was awakened by noise," recalls Ferrato. "I grabbed my camera and ran down the hall to find them arguing in their bathroom." As she snapped off a picture, the husband struck his wife. When Ferrato grabbed his arm, he shook her off. " 'She's my wife,' he said, 'and I'm going to teach her a lesson.' He wasn't concerned that I was there. That's true of a lot of these...
...This is especially true in a country as congenitally moderate as the U.S. Take the campaign of 1992. Polling data show that Americans are more attuned to conservative positions on major issues, such as taxes, government intervention, "family values," etc. Bill Clinton understood the nation's mood and ran as a middle-of-the-road "New Democrat." That is why for keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention, he chose not Jesse Jackson but moderates like Bill Bradley and Barbara Jordan...
...strictly legit; he fronted the first jazz band ever sent on a subsidized tour by the State Department, referred to President Dwight Eisenhower as "Pops," got Jimmy Carter to sing Salt Peanuts at the White House and copped one of those fancy medals from the Kennedy Center. He even ran for the highest office a couple of times himself (sample campaign lyric: "Your politics oughta be a groovier thing/ So get a good President who's willing to swing"), announcing that he would make Malcolm X Attorney General. None of this prankishness or social acceptance blunted the edge...