Word: tilled
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...make appointments. "The order is key," says Richard Holbrooke, a Clinton foreign policy adviser who served in the Carter Administration as an Assistant Secretary of State. "If you appoint people first, they immediately begin protecting their turf, and they start making decisions in your name. Clinton should delay appointments till his priorities are set and until he has a governmental structure firmly in mind...
Harvard's season ended that Saturday in March. The team ended the season with the consolation cry of runners-ups, also-rans and losers everywhere: next year, next year, next year. Just wait till next year...
...Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned...
RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY IS TALKED about primarily as a problem for its victims. But Bebe Moore Campbell knows better. Her remarkable first novel, YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE (Putnam; $22.95), begins with a fictionalized account of the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 for speaking to a white woman in a rural Mississippi town. As in real life, the murderer is acquitted by an all-white jury, but over the next 30 years the murderer's family, unable to adapt to the new ways brought on by the civil...
...total engagement in the political process. His wife Hillary and aides were often hard pressed to persuade him to catch some sleep. Clinton frequently wanted to go on to yet another rally and make another speech well past midnight, then sit up talking strategy with his campaign team almost till dawn. He spoke so incessantly, even while troubled with allergies, that much of the nation heard his voice become increasingly hoarse. Preparing for the first TV confrontation with Bush and Perot on Oct. 11, in fact, some aides were worried that "Bill's voice will go in the middle...