Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even a "friendly" country stuffed with guerrillas can be bad for force protection, as the U.S. learned in Somalia. More immediately, with the Serbs on the way out and NATO not yet in, K.L.A. soldiers spoiling for a fight will soon have free run of the province. Says a senior NATO officer in Macedonia: "We have to be in as soon as the Yugoslav troops pull out in order to fill the vacuum." Otherwise, K.L.A. forces may zip in and wreak vengeance on the estimated 100,000 Serb civilians remaining in the province. While few envision the K.L.A.'s fighting...
Amanda Kaplan, a senior at Masterman High in Philadelphia, wonders how the state can keep telling students there's no more money for education, "but then they find it for stadiums." Jessicah Smith, a senior at West Philadelphia High, has no problem with new stadiums, "but I'm against the idea of using public money." In December they and about 30 other students stood on the steps of city hall and put their own spin on The Twelve Days of Christmas: "Five budget cuts, four broken bathrooms, three schools a-rotting, two books per classroom and a stadium for [Eagles...
...live in it. I am a beneficiary of her work. Because of her example, the world has given way a little. In my case, I was able to go from the state school for the blind to regular public school from the age of 11 until my senior year in high school. And then I decided on my own to go back into the school for the blind. Now I sing jazz...
Richard Stengel is a senior editor at TIME
...people who think they are Jesus or Moses," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. The problem in the Holy Land, however, is that the beauty, the history and the associations of the region can be awesome. "I have never heard of anyone going to the Holy Land," says TIME senior religion reporter Emily Mitchell, "who was not overwhelmed by the emotions it engendered. That can put a severe strain on some mentally fragile people." While cynics may be prone to smirk over the Jerusalem Syndrome, it?s important to remember one thing, says Gorman: "It is not religious experience that...