Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Moynihan of New York and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. In the House it's California Representative Henry Waxman, lead Democrat in its fund-raising probe. This makes for the kind of situation that requires Washington memoirs of the '90s to have a separate index heading on "Clinton, temper of." Last week he was making late-night phone calls to ask Democrats what gives, sometimes at the top of his voice. To New Jersey's Robert Torricelli, he complained that Democrats who were looking to the independent counsel as a quick way out of a political problem were only creating...
...have to play well and have a couple of surprises, but I feel that my chances are still superior," Kasparov says over lunch in Manhattan the next day to an audience of six, including Tan. "I know quite a lot, and I'll control my temper and my psychology...
Defining what exactly a transgendered person is, is but the very beginning of a whole host of problems. Transgenderism is a case of good intentions gone awry. The solution to the problem is for the UC to temper its debates with rationality and common sense if it is to earn the legitimacy it craves from all Harvard students--particularly those who have yet to apply...
Muskie had a reputation as the hardest Senator on Capitol Hill to work for. He had an expansive intellect and a volcanic temper, which, Albright says, "he admitted to me he used as a device." His style with aides was prosecutorial. He would warn them in advance: "My rule is I want to know everything everybody else knows about this--and more." To work for him amounted to training with Jesuits, dissecting one's faith and then reassembling it. At dinner he'd even challenge an aide about his or her wine selection...
Gates doesn't address anyone by name, hand out praise or stroke any egos. But he listens intently, democratically. His famous temper is in check, even when he disagrees with someone's analysis of the DVD's capability to handle something called layering. "Educate me on that," he says in challenging the analysis, and after a minute or so cuts off the discussion by saying, "Send me the specs...