Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...teamed up with correspondent Jeanne McDowell and senior correspondent Edwin Reingold, who spent 11 years as Tokyo bureau chief, as well as photographer P.F. Bentley, a veteran of political campaigns in Haiti, Panama and El Salvador in addition to the U.S. The team's foreign experience gave it a rare perspective on U.S. politicking...
This movie also reminds us that there was a lot of its eponymous hero in the swashbuckling screen characters of Douglas Fairbanks, the young John Barrymore and Errol Flynn. All of them improbably and delightfully blended the manners of the cavalier, the morality of the populist and, in those rare moments when they paused for reflection, the mooniness of adolescence...
...problems and the promise are both given rare examination in the first full-scale survey of America's black congregations since 1933, The Black Church in the African American Experience (Duke University Press; 519 pages; $47.50, $18.95 paper). The painstaking examination, which has just been published, is the work of C. Eric Lincoln, the eminent black scholar of religion at Duke, and Lawrence H. Mamiya, a Japanese-American professor of religion and African studies at Vassar. The authors' team interviewed 1,895 members of the clergy in the 10-year effort and emerged with cautious optimism. "Unlike white main-line...
...genuine. MPD is so difficult to diagnose that estimates of the number of U.S. cases vary wildly, from 7,000 to as many as 16,000. The American Psychiatric Association did not recognize the disorder as a legitimate mental illness until 1980. "Multiple-personality disorder is a very, very rare condition. Because of TV talk shows, it has become the disease of the month and the plea of the year," says Dr. Darold Treffert, director of the Fond du Lac County Health Care Center, who is expected to testify for the defense. "It's a condition that's fairly easily...
...According to Anthony Cordesman, an expert on Middle East military issues, the Saudi army is at least 30% under strength. Most army units are commanded by members of the Saudi royal family selected for loyalty rather than military prowess. Exercises involving more than 6,000 men are rare. If it becomes necessary to move larger numbers, "considerable confusion at the front" is likely, says Cordesman...