Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the death itself may be indelible, it takes a full year even to begin to understand what has been lost and what gained--a year to pass through the seasons of grief: Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays and beach days and school days in between. Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash 12 months ago, but to her family and the international community of those who mourn her, it has been a transformative lifetime. One year on, an older, grayer Prince Charles, approaching his 50th birthday, has quietly taken to wearing his wedding band...
...would attack her, say really mean things, so she would learn to protect herself. At first the exercises reduced the little girl to tears: "Why would anybody say things like that?" But after a while, Hillary later wrote, "she gradually gained mastery over her emotions"; she came to understand people's dark motives; and, finally, she would come back fighting, fully prepared to handle the wicked lies that enemies might tell...
Maybe it helped that the telecast was in Spanish and we didn't understand much, but Telemundo's coverage seemed muy bueno, indeed. One complaint: no lusty GOOOOOAL! after the tawdry admission...
...rental company, International Limousine, were available at the Ritz that night. Another car was also available to Dodi: his father Mohammed al Fayed's green bulletproof Mercedes 500 SEL with sophisticated security features, which was sitting at its usual spot in the underground Vendome parking garage. "I don't understand why this car was not used that night," a senior Ritz official told TIME. "Especially since Dodi had taken it on other occasions...
Emerging from Clinton's testimony, his lawyer David Kendall added to the blather about "closure" and "getting this all behind us." It might not be such a good idea to get this all behind us until we understand what is in front of us. The President is Elmer Gantry, but we have always known that. Now the country-congregation has to decide something about itself. The question of impeachment aside, do we condemn or not condemn? Is it possible to admire an ankle and be pastor to a moral nation too? Clinton's problem may be, as he says, private...