Word: greatness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...with impeccable workmanship, a fashion-forward eye and more than a dash of whimsy, Barbara Feinman sold her hat designs for several years to a number of leading retailers before opening her own atelier shop in 1998. In its first year it was listed No. 4 in the "50 Great New Stores" in New York Magazine's 1998 Christmas shopping guide. It is also listed in this year's "New York Magazine Shops - A Guide to the Best Stores in New York." With one of the very few shops in the city where hats are actually made on the premises...
...face and voice of American diplomacy," Bush announced a little after 12:30 p.m. Saturday after unspooling Powell's résumée with evident satisfaction, "is an American hero, an American example, and a great American story. It's a great day when a son of the South Bronx succeeds to the office first held by Thomas Jefferson...
...think these are promising times, times of great opportunity but times also of challenge and danger," Powell said. "We are up to the task." He vowed to tone up the military, named market economics as the guts of democracy abroad, and promised to put a little dignified reserve into America's use of both military and diplomatic force. He left the first and last steps of Middle East peace to the parties involved, shot a little message to Israel about being "a friend to all sides" and respecting Palestinian "aspirations," and told reporters he'll make Iraq sanctions work again...
...Johnston is interested as well. Nothing's been offered, but Johnston tells TIME the energy job "would be a great challenge because we've got really difficult problems now in energy...
...sound good when you're in Brussels, Paris or New York. On paper it's great, but on the ground, I think neither the Palestinian side nor the Israeli side is prepared for such a breakthrough. Today I was in Nablus, attending the funeral of three people who were shot dead literally at the same time as Arafat was meeting [Israeli foreign minister Shlomo] Ben Ami. At the funeral, I heard it plainly, clearly, that people were condemning the meeting between Arafat and Ben Ami. A friend of mine in Gaza today attended the 13th-anniversary rally of Hamas along...