Word: rising
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Anyone who claims to actually remember what Mandela said is probably lying. What was truly moving was not his speech or even his voice, but the physical moment of his arrival on the dais. We were asked to rise, and suddenly, we heard the sounds of African drums reverberating through the Yard. As we caught sight of him, a cheer swept across the crowd like a rush of wind, as if we were standing at the coronation of an ancient king...
...Mondale." Was Starr trying to make the proverbial, subtle-as-a-brick inference of a Clinton-Mondale affair? That's certainly the implication of footnote 739 -- Lewinsky's jealous comment to Tripp -- which isn't even referenced in the text. Still, her presence in the report has given rise to something Mondale is very used to by now -- a lot of gossip. "We knew there was some rumor back in January that Monica Lewinsky was jealous of my sister," Ted Mondale told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune last week. "That's pretty ridiculous. The fact that she'd have a meeting...
...stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people," Mandela said...
Harvard foresees spending close to $90 million in aid this academic year-spending that is consonant with skyrocketing tuition. The price of a degree has quintupled since 1977 and continues to rise at about 4 percent per year...
...tight problem in today's media, but in truth, the summer's most critical journalistic scandal has little to do with fabricated articles, however egregious those fabrications were. The real forces that push journalism toward fiction are the changes in the way that people get their news. With the rise of Internet and 24-hour news channels, the news cycle has irreversibly changed, putting a high premium on a network or newspaper's turnaround time--the idea is to get out a report or a commentary as quickly as possible...