Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Hillary Clinton is considering - a fairytale-pointy, creamy Queen Anne pile on O Street that I passed ten thousand times when I was a child - I find that I am obscurely offended. I feel a stab of nostalgia. Georgetown is the only place where I am instinctively at home, even though I have been away for many years. I also feel irrationally possessive about Georgetown, having grown up there - when it was quaint and a lot cheaper, when working-class whites and blacks lived side by side with people from the State Department or the CIA, and a sprinkling...
...bias-only move is likely to eat up Monday's 200-point rally by week's end. The NASDAQ, meanwhile, will continue to mutter about its own issues, wondering only incidentally if the tech sector will prop the rest of the economy up or drag it even further down...
...tends to feed off itself, and slowdowns have a way of slingshotting into recessions. Which is Greenspan's job, to smooth out the bumps, and after eight years of economic good times his status as a pilot is legendary. He never claimed to be able to beat the cycle, even after he became a New Economy convert - he'd just rather it bounced between 7 percent and 3 percent annual GDP growth, instead of something on both sides of zero...
...debate in this country. Many argue that abstinence (and the active teaching of its tenets) is the only safeguard against the scourge of STDs. As this study has demonstrated, however, there appears to be some confusion as to what actual abstinence requires. Sexual health educators argue that withholding information - even if its explicit nature makes us squirm - from teenagers is tantamount to granting them permission to engage in everything but actual intercourse, without understanding the potential consequences...
...Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn't have the academic or intellectual standing" required for the job. Ouch. Others involved in the selection process are more equivocal in their dismissals, but the message stands: Even the wonkiest politicians aren't guaranteed special treatment in Cambridge. (And you thought it was hard to get into Harvard...