Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand why parents might believe that rap and hip-hop music could be a bad influence on today's youth. But I would urge them to read the lyric sheets and then decide whether the music is bad. There are positive rappers out there, such as Puff Daddy and Lauryn Hill, who rhyme about family values, childhood experiences and friendships. JESSICA GIARRUSSO, 12 Canton...
...liberal agenda has now been recognized as misguided because it did not address the fact that a sizable segment of the homeless population suffers from numerous barriers to employment and stability: substance abuse, little or no formal education or work experience and a history of incarceration. Today there is widespread acceptance of the idea that truly assisting the homeless means helping them address these problems and preparing them for employment and self-sufficiency. GEORGE MCDONALD, PRESIDENT Doe Fund, Inc. New York City...
...West Side Story-style routine set in the halls of a Los Angeles high school. She is an excellent dancer in a Paula Abdul kind of way, and projects an innocent allure that is a welcome break from the world-weary irony that has seeped into so much of today's pop. The video doesn't bother looking past the surface of teenage life, nor does it aim to. Instead it casts its eye on such touchstones of female adolescence as cutting class and daydreaming about cute guys...
...They are not engaging," she told TIME in an exclusive interview. Her plan, aides say, was to secure agreement from the Albanian side within 48 hours, isolating the Yugoslavs and presenting Belgrade with a simple choice: join the agreement or be bombed. "I did a lot of castle shuttling today," she said, as she slumped into a couch during a negotiating break, clearly tired by the work. Boasted a proud staff member: "She's quarterbacking the Kosovo diplomacy." But a very difficult game lies ahead...
...least, the strategy has had mixed results. And Albright has seen her once golden image dim. Places like Baghdad and Belgrade seem every bit as tumultuous today as when she took office. Congress is wary of her promises that U.S. troops--some 4,000 will be part of the NATO force--will be in Kosovo no more than three years. And negotiations in places like Israel are frozen. It is hard to pin the blame for those stumbles on Albright--these are, after all, centuries-old conflicts. But her tenure has been dominated by the irritations of what aides call...