Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) confronted a suspicious person on the Radcliffe Campus Drive. The subject was a Harvard College student...
...Dalton have barely spoken since. During a closed-door meeting of G.O.P. Senators to discuss the tobacco legislation that he was championing, McCain barked that New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who had prepared a chart outlining the costs of McCain's proposal, was a "chickens___." Other colleagues are the subject of his barracks humor when they are not around. In June 1998 the Arizonan got up at a Washington G.O.P. fund raiser and told a profoundly demeaning joke about Chelsea Clinton. McCain, who has three daughters, later wrote a letter of apology to the President...
Bush speaks convincingly about how important it is for a leader to assemble a trustworthy cadre of advisers. And he argues that there is no percentage, as Governor or as President, in trying to master every subject or micromanage every decision. But as Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas in Austin, says, "Bush is trying to turn his weakness into a virtue. He's not a policy wonk, so he has to rely on people who are." And there is a risk to that approach, adds Buchanan, who is an admirer: "Bush's biggest weakness...
...Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. But as one of the arena's 10 "founding partners," the paper had agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues seemed like a dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Reporter Jim Newton, whose beat includes Mayor Richard Riordan's office, explains in layman's terms, "If I had a financial arrangement with Mayor Riordan and wrote about him, I'd be fired...
...fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place in a biography. History is a consensual lie. ALEXANDER M. STERN Rochester...