Word: roost
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...what a powerful grownup it has become. United Germany, with 80 million citizens and Europe's largest economy, is asserting itself as never before in postwar history. It is assuming a forceful leadership role in European foreign policy even as the Bundesbank rules Europe's economic roost. Germany has had a leading role in the task of guiding the former Soviet Union through its postcommunist crisis; it was Chancellor Helmut Kohl who, far more than George Bush, pushed for last week's $24 billion Group of Seven aid package for Boris Yeltsin's Russian government. And German firms are grabbing...
Which was cool for Kennedy fils. If you think having a big-shot Harvard-educated daddy would help a kid get into Harvard today (and oh, it would, it would), suffice to say that in 1935, when the old-boy Brahmin network ruled the roost, when almost everyone who applied to Harvard was accepted anyway, Kennedy bloodlines rendered the application process somewhat unnecessary. A recommendation from Harry Hopkins, chairman of FDR's Federal Employment Relief Administration, probably didn't hurt JFK's chances much, either. He could get away with an application that, as Light said, "looks like he just...
...theorists who seem most prescient, or at least realistic, are the odd couple of Malcolm X and L.B.J. It was Malcolm who provoked a storm of obloquy in the aftermath of the Dallas shooting when he said J.F.K.'s killing was "a case of the chickens coming home to roost." And it was L.B.J. who 10 years later gave a kind of gritty geopolitical substance to Malcolm's metaphor when he told an ex-aide that J.F.K. was "running a damned Murder Incorporated in the Caribbean" -- all those CIA assassination plots -- and that he believed one of these plots must...
...America today, according to Kimball, "every special interest--women's studies, Black studies, gay studies and the like--and every modish interpretive gambit--deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, and other varieties of... `Left Eclecticism'--has found a welcome roost in the academy, while the traditional curriculum and modes of intellectual inquiry are excoriated as sexist, racist, or just plain reactionary...
...accord to reduce conventional arms in Europe, a 34-nation peace charter, a dozen speeches, untold private diplomatic understandings, a quart or two of ceremonial champagne, at least 25 clean shirts, eye contact with nearly a million people and G.I. turkey in the Saudi desert (twice) -- came home to roost (certainly not rest) for the weekend. He sent his laundry out, had Air Force One fueled again (53,611 gal.) and got ready to head for Mexico this week...