Word: approaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...After we wrapped for the night, StrangeBrew was abuzz with people and various campaign supporters. Bradley's issue director approached us, announced he was from Yale and walked off. The stress of the two live shows was over, television executives and the Newsweek clan gathered in booths along the back of the bar. Everything was charged to the "Hardball" account, and we were left to mingle with people who were once only bylines. After Howard Fineman scoffed at my Boston roots ("Why go to Harvard?") and lectured on the merits of journalism and the lack of credibility of Cornell West...
...Such concerns have led the clergy to approach the elections with caution. "The conservatives still claim to rule in the name of the majority of Iranians, and they're feeling pressure from the rising public reaction against their policies," says Dowell. Ironically, the mullahs may be suffering some of the consequences of their own success. Their 20-year revolution has seen Iran's demographic majority shift decisively from the countryside to the cities, while an Islamic version of women's empowerment has become a major force. The number of female students at Tehran's university grew from 25 percent...
...Keeping young Iranians on board for a patient chiseling away at the grip of the mullahs has proved a major challenge for the reformists, particularly after last summer's protests showed their mounting impatience. But the complex distributions of power and repressive instincts of the conservatives prescribe a gradualist approach among reformists. "If Iran is to complete the dizzying road from theocracy to democracy," says MacLeod, "reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians who feel more comfortable with Islamic traditions and like to be assured that the reform movement remains...
...after all, Carroll, the eldest cop in the car, who was the first to approach Diallo, the first to falsely identify the victim's wallet as a gun, and, arguably, the force that precipitated the barrage of bullets that killed Diallo. A tragic mistake was made, and the political storm surrounding this trial virtually guarantees that someone will have to shoulder the penalty. Sobbing on the stand Monday, Carroll was the embodiment of anguish - and, the prosecution may contend, of the bulk of the guilt...
Three women wearing curious hoods approach him in a deserted alleyway--fans, he guesses--and the next thing he knows he is chained hands and feet to the floor of a stark white room with only a skylight in the high ceiling to remind him of the outside world. "You belong to us," one of the women tells him. "You're ours...