Word: bragging
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...innocent people get killed?not intentionally, but they do, and young men end up killing young men, and that stays with you for the rest of your life. It's not something you brag about, but it's something you live with. One way to deal with the pain and guilt is you find a place of sanctuary where people won't condemn you. I created such a place because so many veterans came back from Vietnam who had these kinds of problems. I created the Vet Center program. There were 15 centers in 1980; now there are about...
...first it felt good, this tanking-economy thing. My friends from Stanford no longer had options to brag about, my mom stopped rubbing my face in her precious Cisco stock, and I was hearing a lot less from James Cramer. But then I realized it might affect me: no more free deliveries of items ordered on the Web, the end of the tasting menu, less airtime for Maria Bartiromo--even an e-mail about getting rid of the free Snapple from our office refrigerators, though I may have hastened that by hoarding the remaining cases under my desk late...
...brag about [the Brattle] when I go to other theaters. It's a repertory house where you can still really see fourteen different movies in one week," he says...
...Every year, Bill Clinton blinded Republicans with detail after detail, and that political mojo of his, along with the economy, did the rest. Bush doesn't do details, and he doesn't have anything to brag about yet except having clean hands...
...continuing to operate Hilles as it has been for years--a sort of second rate Lamont that gives Quad residents something to brag about--Harvard wastes prime space on campus. With a little bit of good planning, Hilles could turn out to be a major player on the campus social scene...