Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really, really conservative. "I came to the Republican party on principle, and I'm leaving on principle," Smith proclaimed Monday. By principle, of course, he means unwavering support for gun rights and prayer in school, and unwavering opposition to abortion ? principles he feels that Republicans have sold down the river for an electable scourge named George...
...Boston started to surge, pushing the total take for the event to $850,000 before the Bush campaign had to start turning people away at the door. The same thing happened at fund raisers across the country, converting what had been a steady stream of donations into a raging river. When Bush announced last week that he had raked in $36.25 million, the news instantly transformed the 2000 campaign. He had not only outraised his nearest G.O.P. rival, John McCain, 9 to 1, but raised double the $18.2 million collected by Al Gore, the sitting Vice President and Democratic heir...
...little musicians are gathered in the basement of River East elementary school in one of New York's tougher neighborhoods: East Harlem. At the back of the room is a sign admonishing them to PRACTICE MORE; in front is this dervish of a drill instructor, issuing staccato directives from beneath a cloud of frizzy, dark hair that seems charged by her kinetic energy. "Don't anyone make a sound. Fix your feet and your bow right away. O.K., eyes on me. No fooling around...
...tour operators are pitching packages so wealthy globe-trotters can watch the New Age dawn against decidedly Old Age backdrops--Yemen, for example. Jump aboard a private jet with R. Crusoe & Son of Chicago for one of its millennium sojourns, and you will also get to see Mali's river-port city of Mopti and the minimalist infrastructure of Timbuktu...
...Hall, a graceful, pillared house in Natchez, Miss., our guide held forth enthusiastically on the building's period chandeliers, wallpaper and marble fireplaces. When I asked her how many slaves the Stanton family owned, she replied, "I don't know. About 500, maybe. But they all lived across the river...