Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your car with snacks and paper towels. Others are difficult but doable: "It's unrealistic to feel that you can get everything...for your child... Avoid the temptation to buy all those adorable things you think you'd like to have." Some are impossible: "Keep your sense of humor." (Thank you, but we have other plans...
...deciding on the gift, Turner says, he considered a more unorthodox approach: buying the outstanding U.S. debt from the U.N. and then going to Congress and demanding to be paid, threatening to sue if Congress continued to balk. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who called Turner last week to thank him, was quick to applaud the gift. "I think this reflects not only Ted Turner's brilliant approach to solv[ing] problems," she said, but also "how the American people feel about the value of the United Nations." Turner has promised to help raise more money for the organization through...
...Thank heaven for the Senate. Surely risking vicious audits themselves, those gallant St. Georges on the Finance committee pried up the IRS rock and shone their dazzling light on the oily squirmings thus revealed. Knowledge is power; so armed, we may yet turn the tide. If we fail, we could cross that 21st century bridge into a land like Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's vastly incredible, exquisitely surreal romp through a near future in which bureaucracy is lord and master. Where if you don't have the proper stamp on your 27 B stroke six, soon enough Central Services...
...Thank you for the positive piece about Uganda and its President, Yoweri Museveni [WORLD, Sept. 1]. Who says nothing good can come out of Africa? At least, all African leaders are not crooks, thieves, criminals, looters of their countries' treasuries and incompetent and ignorant dictators. Africans can be proud of leaders like Museveni. But alas, Africa is still in bondage. An era of peace and prosperity will emerge only when African leaders realize that salvation for their countries lies in the hands of Africans, not Europeans and Americans. African leaders should fashion a political system of government that is most...
...students thank the donor for bettering the athletic resources available to Harvard students. But we are somewhat disappointed that the MAC had to rely on an anonymous donation for necessary changes. Even associate director of athletics John E. Wentzell agrees that "this has been needed." This is a gross understatement; Harvard's athletic facilities are a scar on the College. Embarrassingly, the impetus for change came from outside the University...