Word: secrets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...either party's campaign. When the candidacy of a major party is decided by 5 to 8 percent of the population--as it was in this year's primaries--it's that much easier for career politicians to assemble the critical mass necessary for victory (for example, the secret message in the source code at www.gore200.com...
Fujimori tried to cast himself as the hero of the drama, which began with an explosive power play against his shadowy secret police chief, Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, after the latter was caught red-handed paying a bribe. But despite the jaunty posture Fujimori struck during the crisis, it looked as if his presidency had become terminally entangled in the web of intimidation, bribery and other criminal activity swirling around his erstwhile ally, Montesinos...
...Under a government policy that ran from 1910 to, unbelievably, 1971, as many as 1 in 10 of all Aboriginal children were removed from their families in an effort to "civilize" them by assimilation into white society. Their story of suffering, abuse, and lost identity--long Australia's dirty secret--is finally forcing itself out. It's an uncomfortable development for many Australians, especially at a moment when the country is basking happily in the spotlight of the Olympics. While a growing band of campaigners lobbies for an official government apology, John Howard, the conservative Prime Minister, has refused...
...incident," when a woman at a Polish festival grabbed a grimacing Cheney for a dance. He'll go to fund-raisers, but don't expect any schmoozing. Last Wednesday night at the Senate's annual dinner for major donors, he sat with lobbyists at a table guarded by the Secret Service and then slipped away without slapping one back. At a Labor Day parade in Illinois, as George W. Bush careened from side to side pressing the flesh, Cheney kept in formation like a drill sergeant...
...many students, caught up in the understandable anxiety of finding a job, forget the dirty secret of recruiting: Most firms want you far more than you want them. Consulting firms and investment banks are in heavy competition with one another and depend on attracting name-brand college graduates to bolster their reputations. They don't offer obscene starting salaries because they're naturally generous people: That money is there to lure you away from teaching, public service, or continuing your education...