Word: paged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush Administration adopts the recommendations of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which last week proposed some 60 strong steps for avoiding another tragedy like the midair destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. That disaster, said the commission's tough 182-page report, "may well have been preventable." The report blamed Pan Am's "seriously flawed" security system for loading an apparently unaccompanied suitcase containing a plastic explosive into the cargo hold of the New York-bound Boeing...
There are times when Healy has something on his mind that cannot be shared by either teaching or example. Then he is apt to write a column for his old friend Meg Greenfield, editorial-page editor of the Washington Post. Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles of Washington Mayor Marion Barry, concluding with Donne's words, "Thou knowest this man's fall, thou knowest not his wrastling...
...says a great deal about John Sununu's reputation for rudeness that, when the "small minds" quote appeared on the front page of the Washington Post the next morning, half the town knew immediately which "senior official" was talking. The Democrats whom Bush was trying to lure into budget talks accused the Administration of negotiating in bad faith. But Sununu had accomplished his goal: reassuring the Republican faithful and the voters that Bush remains staunchly opposed to any broad new taxes. When the President subsequently dissociated himself from Sununu's remarks in a chat with House Speaker Tom Foley...
...Installation I learned how all this works from a KGB officer who'd had the job of sorting files. In every case, the first page of a file was retained. If a person had been executed, an affidavit that the death sentence had been carried out had to be included, along with the serial number of the pistol used...
...prominence of the article about Clark's decision greatly undermines the importance of Jackson's speech. Did The Crimson feel that a former presidential candidate's words deserved to be on page 10, past Dim Wits and the dining hall menu? The article "Jackson Calls for Social Action," is comfortably buried, only for the eyes of the most probing reader. Furthermore, did The Crimson find this bland, innocuous headline sufficient? Is that the kind of headline the speech inspired? It seems as if the attitude of The Crimson towards Jackson is one of boredom and satiation. The Crimson might...