Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compare this coming weekend with its counterpart two years ago. On Freshman Parents' Weekend, many of us were counting the six awkward weeks between move-in day and our parents' return, like kids at summer camp longing for the glories of Visiting Day. We eagerly brought our parents on campus tours, pointing out buildings where our classes met and even those in which we didn't have a class. We went to all the panels and inspirational speakers and concerts that the weekend's organizers had so zealously planned for us. When our parents arrived on campus, we frantically introduced...
...educators--in California and across the country--who have left this debate to be determined by people like Ron Unz. The failure is that conservative voices are the only ones shaping the discourse on bilingual education in California and that no serious alternative plan has emerged from the liberal camp, leaving a vacuum where there should be thoughtful dialogue and a monolithic, conservative program where there should be interesting alternatives...
...those incidents were just a few of the stories circulating last week about the all-Starr team, suggesting that someone, perhaps allied with Clinton, had hired a private investigator to excavate the dirt on the independent counsel. A top Washington sleuth who may be looking into Starr's camp or its possible connections with Clinton's enemies is Terry Lenzner of Investigative Group International, who worked for the Democratic National Committee last year. In a brief interview, Lenzner denied that he was probing Starr, but before TIME could ask if he was investigating Starr's lieutenants he said...
...format is now so firmly established that it has been included in the last two rounds of presidential debates. In both '92 and '96, the Clinton camp insisted on it, and no wonder. The most painful moment in either campaign came in watching George Bush and Bob Dole struggle feebly to adapt themselves to this alien venue. Bill Clinton glided through the town meetings, reveling in the chance to display his almost superhuman empathy. But Bush and Dole were older gents, from a generation that considered reticence a virtue and self-exposure a weakness--not, in other words, town-meeting...
Simpson said his understanding of race was partly shaped by living near the Hart Mountain Relocation Center, a Japanese-American internment camp during World...