Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe officials say the campaign, which kicked off in 1993, is chugging away and should reach its final goal in 2000 as planned. But some alumnae say they've heard that the yearlong secret talks have persuaded some to delay donating until they know to what they're giving...
...sentimental"--and made noise about how real men know that foreign policy has always been a choice of lesser evils. But that's exactly what Clinton was saying last week. He knows from his experience in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995 that Milosevic understands only force. The dirty little secret is that it's taken Clinton several years to realize that. It's impossible to know if last year's Balkan bloodshed might have been diminished had Clinton acted faster. But when Milosevic massed troops on the Kosovo border two weeks ago, Clinton faced a choice between his instincts...
...They were having a shredding party, and the shredding machine overheated and clogged. So she was smuggling top-secret documents out in her panties. I thought it would have made a very hot Vanity Fair photo spread...
...Jeopardy!? and ?The Oprah Winfrey Show?) underscored the pressure on the so-called old media to pull itself together. The Yahoo! purchase of the Internet?s leading supplier of radio and video programs (whose hits included the web broadcast of John Glenn?s shuttle flight and the Victoria?s Secret fashion show) highlighted the new media?s effort to capitalize on its own momentum...
...addition, Saddam has solid economic and political incentives to keep things calm while the U.S. and its allies are otherwise occupied. "There is a considerable amount of secret traffic going on through bordering Turkey and Jordan exchanging oil for food," says Dowell, "and the U.N. is looking the other way." Maintaining the current stalemate allows Saddam to survive quite nicely as a result of that trade, while at the same time he keeps considerable U.S. resources pinned down in his region. Why bother to upset the balance...