Word: inhabitants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that in mind, the most earnest student of history to inhabit the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson has surrounded himself with his predecessors. Clinton keeps at his bedside two old volumes comparing presidential campaigns so he can read them slowly and savor them; he has stocked the library next to the Oval Office with enough presidential biographies to make it what he calls "a history of the American presidency...
...rutted dirt road leads to Vojnik, a farming village of 200 houses and 2,000 ethnic Albanians. Devoutly Muslim and speaking a complex, ancient language derived from Illyrian, the people here are the most doggedly independent of the approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...
...articles about grapes that preceded the referendum, how could so many abstain? Admittedly, Harvard students are a busy bunch. Even with all the publicity, even with voting as easy as a card swipe, it is not easy to shake us out of the academic and social shells we inhabit...
Teletubbies, meanwhile, is without doubt the most inventive of the new shows. The others have the same kinds of puppets, the same kind of scripts. On Teletubbies, the characters, the world they inhabit, their language--which is supposed to be that of two- or three-year-olds--are all unique. Since it is in the process of being Americanized, not very much of it is available for viewing, but it could be strange and wonderful...
...even sensible and indomitable Alice could have stood up to all the characters that inhabit Saturday-morning television, which accounts for just a few of the 28 hours the average American child spends in front of the tube every week. Wonderland? Children's programming is more like the quintessential "wasteland" denounced by former fcc chairman Newton Minow, a land in which young viewers are pursued--and often captured--by cartoons and cartoonish people sponsored by companies trying to entice the kids into buying their candies and sweetened cereals and toys...