Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days is not at hand. Graduation isn't the Rapture, and although they might see themselves as the elect, the senior gift committee isn't destined for any better of a life than the rest of us. Our lives until now have been spent in school, but the end of our lives as we have known them doesn't mean that our lives are ending. It doesn't matter that you won't make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter...
...secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle has a loose coalition agreement with the Islamic-oriented National Mandate and National Awakening parties. Even if the opposition coalition manages to secure enough seats to outvote Golkar and the government-military nominees, they?re fiercely divided among themselves over whom to elect as president. And that may offer the present rulers an opportunity to tempt one of them into a coalition. "In habitual democracies, elections provide the answers in political contests," says TIME East Asia correspondent Terry McCarthy, "but in Indonesia the first free election in 44 years is just setting the questions...
...Center Party that Lipkin-Shahak represents in the newly elected parliament is almost certain to be a governing partner with the party of Prime Minister-elect EHUD BARAK, who preceded Lipkin-Shahak as military chief of staff. And the two generals were once close, though their relationship tensed over Lipkin-Shahak's initial decision to run against Barak, instead of beside him, in the Labor Party...
...appearances that she even requires aides to count the steps she must take to the podium," it should have been obvious that a Dole presidency could include just the sort of unfortunate incident that occurred in Quincy, Ill., last week. As a veteran politician put it, "When you elect someone with a step counter on her staff, you should know that what you're definitely not getting is devil-may-care...
...Israel's former army chief, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, was putting himself forward as a future prime minister. Though his candidacy quickly flopped, the retired general may be up for a lesser but still desirable job: ambassador to the U.S. The Center Party that Lipkin-Shahak represents in the newly elected parliament is almost certain to be a governing partner with the party of prime minister-elect Ehud Barak, who preceded Lipkin-Shahak as military chief of staff. And the two generals were once close, though their relationship tensed over Lipkin-Shahak's initial decision to run against Barak, instead...