Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young scientist whose experiment undercut the widely practiced medical treatment known as therapeutic touch...
Once back on the job, Hillary found that her every shudder invited scrutiny. There was the way she ignored the President's touch at a speech in Moscow, and the way she charged half a block ahead of him while working a crowd in Ireland. She spent their 23rd anniversary at a women's conference in Bulgaria; he spent it in budget talks at the White House. But the First Couple danced together three times at a state dinner for Vaclav Havel. "Hillary and I, we're doing fine," her husband said...
Benjamin Netanyahu opened his reelection campaign on a note as old as democracy itself: His opponents are out of touch with the will of the people. "Either you replace the people or you replace the parliament," Netanyahu said in a televised speech to the Knesset Monday night. "And I agree to replace the parliament." Israel's prime minister says the people support his policies (which are essentially an abandonment of the October Wye Plantation agreement) and that it's the Labor party, which split with Netanyahu's governing coalition after he refused to comply with a scheduled withdrawal of troops...
...dumped more than $10 million into it and plans to increase the fund's size to $50 million by 2000. Local libraries, environmental groups and his alma mater, M.I.T., have benefited handsomely; but Kirsch directs the bulk of his charity to scientists seeking cures for diseases that touch him. Kirsch's father is a diabetic who was recently found to have cancer; his mother suffers from macular degeneration. "Someday I could have to go through what my parents are. So if I can apply my dollars now, then when I'm older, it's possible I can have a better...
...SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Forbidden romance, raffish show-biz comedy, literary pranksterism and class warfare jostle joyously in this intricately imagined, exuberantly acted, cunningly directed tale of how the young, infinitely distracted Bard gets in touch with the genius he doesn't know he possesses. To Gwyneth Paltrow, muse of Miramax, we send our heart...