Word: laboredness
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Baker may be right in branding suggestions that the U.S. somehow encouraged Baghdad's aggression "absolutely ludicrous." But the incident revealed anew that taking blame as well as credit is not Baker's style. The trait predates his 20 months at the State Department. During the 1988 presidential campaign, Baker...
He can play it hot or sweet, highbrow or low-down. Wideman takes risks that do not always pay off. Writing in dialect is dangerous, and there are labored passages of multicultural rap that combine Shakespeare's Tempest and Third World politics: "Today's lesson is this immortal play about...
When he was named attorney general of New Hampshire in 1976, Souter decided not to move into the office that went along with the job. Instead, he stayed put in the adjoining office he had occupied as the department's No. 2 man and gave the more prestigious quarters -- and...
This time the town's text commission labored hard to respond to complaints, especially those lodged by American Jews. The commission reworked the basic text, itself a 19th century revision by a local priest, Alois Daisenberger. The new version was prepared in consultation with Jewish agencies and two Catholic scholars...
Eventually, Seng and his family were sent to a rice-producing commune in the Kampong Cham area of eastern Cambodia. There, father and sons labored twelve hours a day and more in the paddies, although Seng's wife was too weak to work. At that, they were lucky: in the...