Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April 26, 1992, after two rounds of voting widely judged to have been free and fair, civilian Alpha Oumar Konare was elected President, and A.T.T., now an immensely powerful and popular general, stepped down. Instead of returning to the barracks, he took on the job of fighting Guinea worm disease and now also mediates regional disputes...
...scene belonged on trash TV, full of staged bluster and righteous fury and lots and lots of diversions. There was James Carville, the President's alpha attack dog, daring independent counsel Kenneth Starr to subpoena him by mocking both his faith and his fervor. "He goes down to the Potomac and listens to hymns as the cleansing water of the Potomac goes by, and we're going to wash all sodomites and fornicators out of town," Carville said. There was Starr deploring what he described as an "avalanche of lies" that had paralyzed his investigation, by which he meant...
...competition inherent in video games also contributes to the real-life hierarchy of players, battling to be alpha-male. Eli B. Richlin '01 boasts, "Being able to beat my roommate at a game of skill, such as `Red Alert' or `Madden' 98,' reinforces my superiority and my prominence in the pecking order." His roommate, Michael L. O'Byrne '01, can only defend himself by jibing, "[Winning at video games] is a means by which some can compensate for other inadequacies in their lives...
...there are other unforgettable moments--old footage of the white tank that "Bull" Connor, Birmingham's notorious police chief, drove around the town; a recent interview with an aged George Wallace, who repeats over and over that his black attendant is his best friend; Carole Robertson's mother Alpha explaining how she has come to forgive...
...addictive. Such pleasurable neurotransmitters as dopamine, now implicated in drug dependency, weren't created by Mother Nature to boost cocaine sales, after all. Their natural function is to reinforce habits that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...