Word: beingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, imagined that being a kid was a fun-filled time, with little responsibility or worry, where the only requirement was to enjoy yourself and to kill pirates and frolic with mermaids. If he were actually a kid, however, he would have realized...
The Harvard defense was tough to beat all day. The Crimson made it especially difficult for Mountaineer freshman Lauren Kokotajlo, who shot a mere 1-of-11 from the field, including 0-of-4 from the three-point line, despite being the team's top three-point shooter going into...
The story is his running mate, and has been from the day he decided to leave the Navy for politics. It has served as both weapon and shield, a kind of deterrent that makes him easy to fear, hard to attack, hard sometimes even to live with. Throughout his rise...
The story has helped protect him from his own faults, his ethical lapses, his ugly outbursts, the abandoned first marriage, because he admits to failures that sound more heroic than most people's successes, and it is hard to judge someone who has made choices most civilians can't even...
It was not until he fought for and won Barry Goldwater's Senate seat in 1986 that McCain began to search for a broader mission. "In the Senate you have greater freedom," recalls former administrative assistant Chris Koch. "It's not that he had a specific agenda of A, B...