Word: suggestions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is shaping up as the biggest combat operation of his presidency, Bill Clinton has begun to alter his private and public posture in ways that suggest war is just around the corner. He has been on the phone to as many as three foreign Presidents a day pleading for support. The Pentagon has been freely releasing sensitive information on its deployments to the gulf, hoping the show of force will scare Saddam into backing down. The CIA director, George Tenet, briefs Clinton daily on how the Iraqi dictator is hiding military equipment to escape damage from bombardment. This week...
Conversational critics of public education are willing to express dissatisfaction with schools, but few can be prodded into proposing and expounding upon reform ideas. Suggest taking on a classroom for a year to them and you'll probably elicit a predictable response: hearty laughter as if the proposal was a joke. Even though education should be an all-encompassing investment, one in which every citizen nurtures, encourages and excites children by the process of learning, parents and the public at large rarely have a meaningful reciprocal relationship with the public school environment...
...Junior Prof. in Spanish Literature Promoted" (News, Feb. 9): I would like to clarify some of the comments I am reported to have made. As you imply, I am delighted by the announcement of Professor Bradley Epp's tenure. It would, however, be wholly erroneous for me to suggest that Professor Epp's field "is not one in most demand," and I certainly did not do so. The courses which he has offered since I have been at Harvard, which include courses on gay studies and comparative Romance literatures, are at the forefront of contemporary debates and are urgently...
...Headless Mice...and Men" [ESSAY, Jan. 19], Charles Krauthammer wrote that "Congress should ban human cloning now. Totally. And...the deliberate creation of headless humans must be made a crime, indeed a capital crime." May I (facetiously?) suggest a capital punishment for this "capital crime"? How about...decapitation? ALAIN PIETTE Brussels...
...band played on last Thursday as the President and First Lady danced till 1 a.m. to My Girl and In the Mood. Later reports would suggest that Currie's testimony would not sink Clinton, after all. For now, the ship of state sails...