Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notice one damning convergence. In 1994, the United States, having been burned in Somalia, was desperate to stay out of Rwanda. How to manage that? By pettifogging. By arguing about semantics: the Clinton way. His Administration, pressed to honor the 1948 Genocide Convention (not to mention human decency) by intervening, quibbled at a furious rate about the meaning of the word genocide. Madeleine Albright, who was Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. in 1994, temporized as the death toll in Rwanda climbed into the hundreds of thousands. It was, as Gourevitch writes, "the absolute low point of her career...
...depressing--without the emergence of off-Hollywood auteurs like Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster), Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming), Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou), the brothers Hughes (Dead Presidents) and Wachowski (Bound) and, of course, the dark lord Tarantino. They're here to stay, but not as colleagues or competitors. "Directors like Quentin don't need to top some other director," says indie-film guru John Pierson. "Their fear is how to top themselves...
...patients, this focus on the customer can be refreshing. Duke and its competitors are listening to patients and giving them what they want. WakeMed's new Heart Center includes an attractive built-in hotel that allows families to stay in the hospital while the patient undergoes surgery. Duke has shifted its primary-care physicians out of the main building to satellite locations, since focus groups show that patients want street-level parking when they visit doctors they see regularly...
Valerie Thompson has been unable to stop crying since she realized that managed care is tearing her away from her newborn daughter Morganne. The baby has jaundice and needs to stay under white fluorescent lights for another day. But Valerie's managed-care plan, like most, wants her out after two days, vastly complicating her plans to breast-feed her baby. Thompson went to the nurses' station and begged for one more day. The nurses told her she could call her insurer, but they didn't hold out much hope. "They said, 'No way. That's not going to happen...
...maybe a political career in North Carolina. "As soon as Congress is gone, he's gone," says a White House official. Bowles, credited with bringing order to a chaotic operation and setting a less partisan tone with Republicans, wanted to leave last January, but PRESIDENT CLINTON implored him to stay. The decision is probably one Bowles has at times regretted: only days after he announced that he would stay, the Lewinsky scandal broke. Although Bowles has pointedly kept himself out of that crisis--last month he said that until the matter reached Congress, "I hadn't spent two minutes...