Word: splinteredness
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Babbitt's status as an obscure ex-Governor and outsider reminds the galleries of Jimmy Carter's standing in the spring of 1975. Carter -- like Babbitt, Gephardt and most of the others today -- bet everything on Iowa and rode that success through New Hampshire. The 1988 race resembles the one...
His instrument for this was color, betokening light. Nice gave him a different light from Paris -- a high, constant effulgence with little gray in it, flooding broadly across sea, city and hills, producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures. It encouraged Matisse to think of space (in particular, the space...
Encompassing 160 different ethnic tribes scattered across Africa's largest country, the 22 million people of Sudan, two-thirds of them Muslim, have never had much unity. Indeed, the nation has been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain...
Elated by the scope of his success, Nakasone let loose with some uncharacteristic hyperbole. He called the final tally "this voice of the nation, this voice of heaven, this voice of God . . ." Still, the victory was only a first step toward Nakasone's goal of extending his leadership for another...
For the past decade, as the Justices of the Supreme Court have wrestled with the vexing dilemmas of affirmative action, they have produced a string of splintered and often confusing rulings. At first glance, the affirmativeaction decisions handed down last week by the high court seemed only to add to...