Word: tidbits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently recalled this arcane tidbit from adolescence past, as I leafed through my trusty courses of Instruction. With a generous stay of execution (i.e. a 9th term), I was hoping for a couple of cool courses to finish out my academic career...
...actually breaks new ground by providing his personal (if unsurprising) views on abortion, Marxism, competing religions and bad things happening to good people. "What he does," Ostling says, "is take on some of the great existential issues of modern life with an extremely personal, direct piece of evangelism." One tidbit: Did God mastermind communism's fall? The Pope says Russia's 1917 peas
...THINK? According to a recent TIME/CNN poll, blacks and whites disagree sharply on the kind of justice O.J. Simpson can expect. Two-thirds of whites polled said O.J. Simpson will get a fair trial--just about the same fraction of blacks who said they expect an unfair trial. Another tidbit from the same poll: 42 percent of whites said they believed the case against Simpson was very strong; only 22 percent of blacks agreed. Post your view in the Crime folder, under...
...when he finally made up his mind and then was out-organized by Bush," says TIME Washington correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. The fortunes of rivals like California Governor Pete Wilson, who is facing a stiff gubernatorial challenge this fall, will probably determine whether the Kansan jumps in. TIME DAILY TIDBIT: No sitting Senator has won the White House since John F. Kennedy...
...eccentric, truth-dispensing mother ("A clean colon does wonders for the will to live"), Cora come to the conclusion that "things did not always go as you planned, much less make a handy brand of the right kind of sense." We can only hope that this tidbit of knowledge will make her a better mother than she was grown...