Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of us feel comfortable enough to sit at a meal and talk freely about race with our friends? Race will continue to be side-stepped until people can understand what it means to be a racial minority. If the current state of race relations at Harvard is maintained, we will never reach that point...
Once there, he gave the speech of his life, less for its text than its context. It was detailed, specific and easy to understand, uncharacteristically lean, a fatherly promise to take care of business. He offered something to everyone: a balanced budget for the bond markets, better child care for working parents, a higher minimum wage for the unions, due attention to global warming for the greens, a plan to save Social Security for the boomers, and a last, potent warning for Saddam Hussein...
...America struggles to understand the Lewinsky affair, there's a natural temptation to make sense of the drama by reducing it to a clash between individual heroes and villains. And so we have a parade of soap-opera caricatures--the overzealous and partisan prosecutor, the lusty young temptress, the bloodless wife, the philandering husband--all competing for blame in the public...
...obsessive-compulsive personality. The way she works her way into your life, yes. She really likes people to accept her." But, Dave says, "she's very direct, very sincere, very forthright. I don't think Monica embellishes at all. She loved to get into people's minds, to understand why people do what they do." And she had a kind of vision too. Says Dave: "She was interested in the mystic arts, the higher mind, karma, destiny." Now she's mired in history...
...last conversation with colleagues, White House counsel Vince Foster said he couldn't understand how so much of what he did or said found its way into the press. Secretary Linda Tripp sat just outside his office--delivered him his last meal, in fact. Perhaps, like Lewinsky, Foster was too close to the wrong person...