Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jordan made it easy to miss the point. For years children have been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news lands on the front page...
EVIE ROSEN, 69; WAUSAU, WIS.; retired needlework-shop owner Disheartened by news stories about the homeless, Rosen wanted to do something to help: "Almost every home has little balls of yarn. I thought if we all could knit 7-in. by 9-in. rectangles, we could stitch them together and make a lot of afghans." She started Warm Up America in 1992, getting the word out to churches, retirement homes and craft shops. Last year, with help from other organizations, the group distributed 16,000 afghans...
...business in the Balkans was finished (he's rumored to be leaving the State Department and returning to Wall Street later this month). But the arrangement was beginning to unravel, and the man who had knit it together in the first place was being summoned to perform some quick-stitch diplomacy...
...delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...
...candidates, it is Gramm who is in the best position to upset Dole in Iowa. Backed by a gritty local staff, the Texan is trying to stitch together a coalition of deficit hawks, gun owners, property-rights activists and abortion opponents to win at least 25% of the vote. He is also trying to appeal to newly registered Republicans who may be fed up with the slow pace of change in Washington. If he manages it, a mistake or two by Dole in the next few weeks could make it a race...