Word: explainers
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Admissions officials explain that while they encourage interested high schoolers to seek the college that is the best "match" for the individual, they understand that it can be difficult to distinguish between Harvard and other selective schools. To fill the gap, an assortment of student organizations works to help applicants learn about Harvard...
...pain on the battlefield was preceded by confusion in the corridors of power. Two days before the attacks, the Russian government declared a cease-fire for reasons it could not quite explain. Then the Kremlin announced that two top, hard-line field commanders in Chechnya were being replaced. Then they said the generals, Gennadi Troshev and Vladimir Shamanov, were not being replaced, just rotated back to their previous posts...
...Congressional hostility to the U.N. has grown in the '90s, in part through the Clinton administration's failure to properly explain and defend the organization. "Helms still spoke of the U.N. as if it?s some kind of world government threatening U.S. sovereignty, which doesn?t reveal much understanding of international diplomacy," says Dowell. "But what may be more important is that Holbrooke is trying to draw Helms into the process of U.S. relations with the rest of the world." And being a Southern gentleman, Helms? repaid his hosts? hospitality by inviting all the Security Council ambassadors to Washington...
...with the ax. So what happens if you have to swing it at yourself? McCain's services on behalf of a major contributor gave an opening last week to George W. Bush, the man who has benefited most, dollarwise, from things as they are. McCain is being asked to explain why he wrote letters to various federal agencies in support of 15 of his top campaign donors. "Somebody who makes campaign finance an issue has got to be consistent," Bush declared, "and walk the walk." At the first of the Republican debates last week, McCain walked it this way: "These...
...came home too dejected to write, which may explain much of this column. But after a big mug of Ovaltine and a very inspiring passage from Tony Robbins, I remembered that most people don't like to write. And really, that's what it's all about--not the models, money or fan mail from Robert Goulet. No, I may not be as smart or well-informed as the Rhodes scholarship-winning, newspaper-reading people I work with, but I do love what I do. I'd be pretty happy getting paid to write for anyone, even...