Word: toweritis
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Admittedly, even if we genuinely attempted to empathize with all the significant suffering that exists outside our ivory tower, it probably wouldn't help us feel all that much better. Perspective is important--indeed necessary--but all pain is relative. Every January this campus becomes a crucible of stress and anxiety. For those who have trouble coping, the health travails of the Russian premiere are understandably little solace. And yet, sometimes, one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than...
...Democrats, meanwhile, were aware that if Clinton could not get a fair trial in a G.O.P.-controlled Senate, it would be in part because of what the Democrats did to Robert Bork and John Tower, and to the methods the Democratic majority had long used to undercut Republican administrations. "If we can't do this," an off-message Democratic Senator said Thursday night, "we're all to blame." And so they agreed to try one last time to pull back from the brink...
...drama was about revenge. Clinton's impeachment is the latest episode in the intensification of congressional partisanship that dates back at least to the Democrat-controlled Senate's 1987 rejection of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court. It includes the scuttling of George Bush's nomination of John Tower to become Defense Secretary amid rumors about his drinking and behavior toward women, as well as the fight over Clarence Thomas, the ouster of House Speaker Jim Wright on ethics charges and the fight that Newt Gingrich led over the misuse of the House bank. Congress is now involved...
When I think of ARCHIE MOORE, an old proverb comes to mind. Suppose you want to build a tower. First you sit down and figure the cost. Then you see if you have enough money to finish it. Otherwise, if you lay a foundation and can't complete the building, everyone will make fun of you. In all the years we talked while Archie was teaching me, he never complained about the years of being the No. 1 contender and being mistreated as champion. All I ever heard were these pieces of the foundation of a great American--the traveling...
...just been nabbed in Pakistan. During the transatlantic leg of the flight back to the U.S., Yousef had bragged that his original plan had been to plant enough explosives in one of the 110-story twin buildings to topple it, killing maybe 250,000 people in the tower and on the ground. But his shoestring operation couldn't afford enough dynamite, and settled for a much smaller blast...