Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purloined paper chase. There are red faces at the State Department Monday after TIME exclusively revealed one of the most embarrassing security breaches of recent times: The tale of the man in the brown tweed jacket. This mysterious stranger apparently walked right into Madeleine Albright?s inner sanctum last month, and proceeded to empty a pouch marked Sensitive Compartmented Information into his briefcase before casually strolling out -- in full view of two secretaries...
...knows the meaning of the word confidential, Lindsey is Clinton's one-man inner sanctum, privy to his thinking on everything from Saddam Hussein to the bimbo eruptions that Lindsey helped contain during the '92 campaign. He also helped prepare Clinton's deposition in the Paula Jones case last month and might know something about the talking points that Lewinsky is supposed to have given to Tripp to guide her testimony in the Jones case...
...classics professor who made his name and killed his career with his infamous 1968 racist "rivers of blood" speech opposing nonwhite immigration; in London. The explosive speech put race on the map of British politics, but it also led to Powell's fall from his party's inner sanctum to its back benches. He never forsook his views, asking in 1995, "What's wrong with racism...
...Pope too has his inner sanctum, a tiny private chapel off his sparsely decorated bedroom, which is adorned with a large bronze crucifix and a small icon of the "Black Madonna" of Czestochowa, symbol of Polish nationalism. Each morning and evening he privately speaks to God there, communing with his one true superior to shape the mission he too has pursued with relentless single-mindedness for 20 years: Go forth and spread the word...
Four years later, gender relations exploded in a Commencement-week confrontation between Crimson President Ira E. Stoll '94 and several female editors who were attempting to carry the president's chair from its place in the Sanctum into the women's bathroom as part of a prank...