Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...therein lies the smoldering secret conflict of Junior Parents' Weekend, one that during Freshman Parents' Weekend barely lit a spark. Many of us are primarily concerned with our academics and extracurriculars, thinking of our social lives as outlets for fun and relaxation. Many of our parents, on the other hand, have a different agenda. More often than not, they are secretly working on the unspoken but ill-concealed project of marrying us off. This project heightens during graduate school and the years following, but for many parents, junior year is when the hint of the notion first appears...
...lots-of-prisoners. But with the notable exception of Lewinsky's mother Marcia, most of the people Starr brought before the grand jury have been small fry, White House stewards and Lewinsky-level junior aides. With last week's appearance by Bruce Lindsey, Clinton's closest adviser and top secret keeper, the independent counsel is going right for the President's inner circle. And so in addition to attacking Starr, the White House mounted a serious immune response, which may include the tricky claim of Executive privilege to shield Lindsey and other top aides from Starr's questions...
...Iraq squad stuffed with generals and diplomats and political advisers trying to figure out how to sell the least worst option for responding to Saddam and conducting the war if it comes. The Monica team has no public face, never says much, spends a lot of time in secret legal proceedings and has a clear goal: to keep the President in office. The Iraq team, on the other hand, has a goal no one can easily sell, and a dozen spokesmen and -women who fanned out last week in full dress...
...opening ceremonies the same way 56 million other Americans did, on the tube at home. Instead of sharing cramped quarters with Lipinski and the flu that took Germany's Tanja Szewczenko out of the running, she bunked with Mom and Dad at a hotel. (Its location was kept secret.) "I'm going to spend as much time as I can in the Olympic village," she declared firmly. "But I've got to focus on my own thing right now and do what's good for me." Conventional wisdom says that Kwan should have played it differently, a little looser perhaps...
...taken to calling the grand-jury room "the Starr Chamber." It's interesting to note that a star chamber was a court that existed in Britain from the 15th century until 1641 and exercised wide jurisdiction under rules suited to the purposes of absolutist sovereigns. This court met in secret without a jury, used torture to force confessions and handed down severe judgments. Dictionaries define a star chamber as any tribunal or investigating body that is similarly unjust and inquisitorial. If the star chamber was abolished in 1641, how come it is sitting in Washington today? BONNIE E. SELMER Cornell...