Word: nexus
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...Ashcroft hearings also have been about this nexus between private behavior and public virtue. No one is claiming that Ashcroft himself is anything but a paragon of virtue in his private life. Judge Ronnie White, the black jurist blocked by Ashcroft from ascending the judicial ladder, says that he does not believe the man is a racist. But at some level, what irks Ashcroft's critics is that there is some discrepancy between his private virtue and his public life. He preaches tolerance in private but may not practice it in public. He preaches love of his fellow...
...late. Haiti, perfectly situated between Colombia and Miami, has become the Yankee-proof drug-trafficking nexus the Colombian cartels have long dreamed of, a place whose police corruption and judicial void make U.S. interdiction efforts all but futile. "There is no institutional [structure] there for us to work with," says U.S. Customs Service commissioner Raymond Kelly. "Everything is broken...
Even at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown, the nexus of Gore's election night headquarters, was moving on--the media center was being dismantled in preparation for the annual conference of the Tennessee Psychological Association...
...other museums will offer their own less glamorous versions of the art/fashion/music nexus. On Nov. 5, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts unveils "Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar," a 350-year survey that's heavy on the post-Stratocaster era. In the same vein, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will premiere "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" on Sept. 22, a survey of rap culture from its beginnings in the late 1970s. Pick your outfit...
...business-political nexus came up again in the federal investigation of Teamster efforts to swap contributions with the D.N.C. in the 1996 campaigns to re-elect both Clinton and union boss Ron Carey. McAuliffe had worked on a high-paying corporate issue with a political consultant who later hatched the swap plan on behalf of the Teamsters. But McAuliffe told prosecutors he had never agreed to a trade and says he has not heard from them since...