Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense, some tough times might be a good thing. Perhaps a visit to the school of hard knocks will be the galvanizing force that offers some definition to the current crop of twenty-somethings. After all, we've pretty much been on our own for some time now without anything coherent to bring us together. We've been enjoying ourselves, merrily afloat on the Good Ship United States, soaking up the remnants of our parents' and older acquaintances' good fortunes, loudly predicting our own success in a few years. A few years of an economy in the wastebasket might cause...
This may very well be our last official visit to the United States before retiring from office next year. There could not have been a more moving start to the visit than one which included being honored in this way by one of the great educational institutions of this nation and of the world...
...even if the timing of these special ceremonies is motivated only by the recipients' schedules, it is all too easy to place these men in a special category. The headline in The Crimson announcing Mandela's visit read "Nelson Mandela to Receive Rare Harvard Honor." Mandela did not really receive a rare honor--many others have received honorary degrees each year. He just received this honor at a rare time of the year. Yet we are now led to think of Mandela in a triad of great men with Washington and Churchill...
...next day, a Saturday, she was invited for a visit with Clinton, according to the report. They met in the study and discussed jobs. He told her to prepare a list of New York companies she wanted to work for. She suggested that the hyperconnected lawyer Vernon Jordan might help. Clinton was receptive. He also told her that he had asked White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles to get her old boss, legislative affairs director John Hilley, to write a recommendation...
...there was melancholy in the air Monday. That ovation could be taken as a last farewell." Perhaps it's a good thing, after all, that no one was watching. Note: Adding to the morning's cruel ironies were reports that Japan's defense minister Fukushiro Nukaga, on a visit to the Pentagon, was hospitalized after his limousine ran into an anti-terrorism barrier mistakenly activated as Nukaga attempted to enter the Pentagon grounds. The barrier "went up and the defense minister's car ran into it," said Pentagon spokesman Col. Richard Bridges. "The front end of the car ended...