Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never really know how anyone else's marriage works. Some unions may be more opaque than others, but all marriages are mysteries born of chemistry and Providence, self-sharpening, soul scrubbing. For movie stars and princesses and Presidents, the drama plays out in public and dares you not to watch, to read its dreams and trace its wounds. There is a reason most First Ladies tend to get along well later in life; they all know what it is like to try to protect the most powerful man in the world, to cancel the rally when he needs his sleep...
...Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
...sees the job of First Lady as a kind of spiritual bully pulpit. While Jackie Kennedy wanted to beautify the White House and Lady Bird Johnson wanted to beautify America's highways, Elizabeth Dole wants to beautify America's soul. She says that as First Lady she would organize a campaign called Give Five, which would encourage Americans to donate 5% of their income to charity and 5% of their time to volunteerism. "It would be a massive program," she says, "and dovetail nicely with my work at the Red Cross...
...been a sort of "Silence of the Lambs" meets "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"-type experience. But more than that, it has focused New York City and forced it to do some soul-searching on a fundamental question: What's to be done with these characters? Put more bluntly, New York is once again wrestling with the idea and practice of capital punishment...
...Republicans pounced. Clearly, Clinton, too, thought that his liberalism was a handicap and hence he tried to change the outcome by changing his approach. He talked about the breakdown of family and urged people to begin by changing "from inside out," changes that reach "the values, the spirit, the soul." In reality, however, Mr. Clinton was a charter New Democrat and has governed as one since the opening bell. His administration moved to the right on nearly every core economic issue since taking power. Think of it as "putting corporations first." He has preferred the financial markets over working people...