Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A. You see, in Fight Club I have these enormous breasts because the character had testicular cancer and had to take female hormones.
This is a supermouse, no doubt about it, though it didn't get its better brain by coming from another world. It was engineered by scientists at Princeton, M.I.T. and Washington University, who cleverly altered its DNA--or, more precisely, that of its genetic forebears--in ways that changed the...
DIED. JOAN BRADEN, 77, former State Department official and frequent hostess to Washington's political heavyweights for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. Braden inspired the character of the matriarch in the '70s ABC series Eight Is Enough, a show based on husband Tom Braden...
Like so much of military literature, from the Iliad on, the book shows how adversity breeds character and replaces selfishness with esprit de corps. Even now, McCain, 63, seems unable to forgive himself for his "failure" to resist longer before signing a confession, declaring himself a "black criminal." "In prison...
There's a subtext to this story: I have the character to lead. But McCain's tale suggests flaws as well as attributes. The "crude individualism" of his youth has translated into a go-it-alone political style that has produced little legislation. And when McCain waffles--appearing to back...