Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite Lee's commitment to improving educational access for minorities, she and fellow protesters have largely avoided participation in any of Carnesale's programs. Energy is clearly the strong suit of these student critics; what an impact that energy would have if it were directed toward mentoring at-risk minority high school students or lobbying the state legislature for more equitable funding for local school districts...
...wake of the President's Aug. 17 admission that he had been lying to the country for months, Senate Democrats appeared to have both the ability and the inclination to throw him overboard. Senator Joseph Lieberman rebuked Clinton, calling his behavior "immoral" and "disgraceful." Several other Senators followed suit, and some privately considered calling for his resignation. Colleagues say Daschle was one of the Clinton allies most deeply wounded. "This has been a very troubling matter to me," he says. "But we've been able to get through...
...about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think this is the greatest thing that could happen to an adult Catholic." Even one who, like most American believers, is still sorting...
...music stops. The crowd parts. Muhammad Ali arrives. He's only the appetizer. The score to Rocky booms over the speakers. Only then does Puffy enter, in a light-colored three-piece suit. Forget being street. He's Wall Street, he's Madison Avenue, he's le Champs Elysees. Donald Trump is at his side. It's Puffy's moment. His album No Way Out played on some familiar gangsta themes, but it's a smash hit. Puffy is a household name, a brand name. In fact his name comes up again and again, in gossip columns and other people...
...someone telling me what I felt," says Hill, who wrote and produced the songs on Miseducation. "It was exactly how I felt the moment I felt it." Her maverick vision hasn't been without controversy. Late last year a group of four musicians who worked on Miseducation filed a suit claiming they deserved additional songwriting credits. Hill denies the allegations. Gordon Williams, who worked as the sound engineer on every song, says, "Definitely the driving force behind that record was [Hill...