Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were fresh out of the war," says Charles M.Zettek '49. "You go through that kind ofstuff...when you come back, you're ready to work.You say, 'I want to do something...
...decade begun to see mental disorders as illnesses, not moral shortcomings. Though we still whisper about it, we all know a Tipper Gore at work today. Indeed, in addition to pushing her policy goals, Gore is hoping her own story will nourish this cultural shift. She and other reformers want to convince the nation that mental illness doesn't result from bad parenting or lax churchgoing but from chemical imbalances. In Gore's case, she says there was a problem with her brain's "gas gauge...
Such crimes have had political consequences. Some New York legislators, for instance, want to make it easier to force people into treatment. Such measures have a law-and-order feel, and politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer--a Democrat who barely won his race last year--have embraced them. But most advocates for the mentally ill point out that even if the potentially violent mentally ill could be committed more easily, there are still few places to take them...
...morphs from St. Hillary to Senate candidate, she risks losing the support of the wishy-washy who ardently did not want her husband run out of town by Ken Starr but are perfectly happy to have Clinton go quietly when his term ends. If people think Clinton fatigue is going to hurt Al Gore, imagine how much it could hurt an actual Clinton...
Then there's the fact that she's not a very good candidate. As much as voters want to know what a candidate will do, they also want to know who a person is, what gets them up in the morning, whom they love and why. And on these matters, Hillary is not going to give an inch, proudly. In an interview broadcast last Wednesday, Clinton nods her head patiently throughout, as if to humor Dan Rather, and laughs loudly and mirthlessly when he asks about her mysterious marriage. Despite the false bonhomie, she emits disdain for the idea that...