Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montreal at Washington...
Unlike his predecessor James H. Rowe III '73, who was known for his political clout in Washington, the Williams College graduate is a veteran of local politics and city resource planning. His appointment leads many to speculate that Harvard is shifting its focus away from Washington and toward mending strained relations on the home front...
Never mind Saddam's pesky air defenses -- Washington's taking more heat about Iraq from a French U.N. policy document. A fourth consecutive day of "no-fly" zone skirmishes Thursday followed France's proposal for a new, more humanitarian strategy on Iraq. "Much of Paris's plan is unacceptable to Washington," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But the French initiative highlights the fact that Washington right now doesn't have a plan...
...amounts to more oil than Baghdad is currently able to produce. "It won't mean much unless Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without a comprehensive Iraq strategy, Washington faces the danger that the current impasse causes an informal collapse of sanctions," says Dowell. "That would be a significant erosion of U.S. global leadership...
...WASHINGTON: Is history supposed to be this boring? Four House managers have had their turn in front of the Senate jury, and there's been nary a revelation in sight -- where were the "nuggets" that James Sensenbrenner promised us? Where, even, was the "cheap mystery" that the White House scorned? Only hours into the case against the President, the networks were switching back to soaps and prosecutors had a dilemma: convincing the jury that they need to hear more of the same. "It's kind of a Rodney King tape problem," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This drama...