Word: temperance
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Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats President Maggie L. Carter '96 tried to temper her party's losses with some gracious bipartisanship...
...drawing away talent and money; they benefit the few at the expense of the many. "If state mandates are really such an impediment to the 1.6 million public-school students in Michigan, then why not remove them for all of us?" asks M.E.A. president Julius Maddox. Such concerns temper the general enthusiasm for charter schools expressed by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley, who as a Democrat is closely attentive to the union view: "We don't want to take our attention off the great majority of schools. We need to make all schools more challenging and engaging...
...perfect. Though his tone lacked some of the strength of the century's great violinists, Lin added just the right amount of time and accentuation to his playing. His level of expressiveness, while it sometimes falls short in concerti by late Romantics like Sibelius and Saint-Saens, matches the temper of Classical works precisely...
...President in 1990, Aristide realized he needed to learn cooperation and conciliation. Uncomfortable with group decision making and wary of advice, he found himself relying more and more on friends, fund raisers and political allies to undertake a national campaign. He and his advisers decided to temper his fabled ferocity, and he began lacing his speeches with references to brotherly love rather than to righteous anger...
...secret poll showing that the Vice President was costing Bush 4 to 6 percentage points. (She later strains credulity when she gushes, "We knew the real day-to-day Quayle, and he was really smart.") Where Bob Woodward breathlessly announced in The Agenda that the President has a temper, James rightly treats these tantrums as common knowledge and not to be taken too seriously. "The truth of the matter," he says, "is that ((Clinton)) was all smoke and no fire...