Word: choses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming to Harvard was somewhat of a culture shock. Born and raised in San Francisco, the idea of transplanting myself 3,000 miles seemed exciting and different. Most of the people I knew were either going to University of California at Berkeley or Stanford; my best friend and I chose to go to East Coast schools, Georgetown and Harvard respectively. It was supposed to be some kind of statement of independence. I was out at school on my own, and theoretically I was supposed to start at the bottom again: being a first-year, trying out new activities, finding...
...found some good friends among the people who lived in my dorm and generally had a very good time after that first rough month getting used to people and living with them. I found an activity I truly enjoyed, witnessed my first Primal Scream (I still shudder), chose a concentration, and found love at the First-Year Formal. There was also the drama of "blocking." I prayed each night before the housing lottery that I wouldn't get "Quadded." Fortunately, I ended up in Quincy House, which I liked for several different reasons, one being that it doesn't have...
Under considerable government pressure to improve their performance, two of the most maligned sectors of the transportation industry -- trains and airlines -- launched new charm offensives on Thursday. The federally subsidized national passenger train service, Amtrak, chose to take a direct route to the bottom line by unveiling a "travel right or your money back" offer. Announcing better customer service, improved food options and enhanced amenities on board, Amtrak president George Warrington pledged to offer dissatisfied train passengers a refund voucher starting later this year. Under pressure to become fully self-sufficient by 2003, Amtrak sees improved service...
Despite his readiness to embrace American individuality and culture, Lee couldn't get Hollywood to embrace him, so he returned to Hong Kong to make films. In these films, Lee chose to represent the little guy, though he was a very cocky little guy. And so, in his movies, he'd fight for the Chinese against the invading Japanese or the small-town family against the city-living drug dealers. There were, for some reason, usually about 100 of these enemies, but they mostly died as soon as he punched them in the face. The plots were uniform: Lee makes...
...Charles jealous by becoming smitten with French aviator and writer Antoine de St.-Exupery in 1939. In the '50s, as the marriage stagnated, she allowed a friendship with her doctor to blossom into a short-lived affair. But though Anne believed she and Charles were "badly mated," she deliberately chose to play the role of the hero's wife. As her daughter Reeve told Berg, "Mother enjoyed wearing her hair shirt." Reeve wrote in her own memoir, "It was sometimes an uneasy and uncomfortable union, but my belief, nonetheless, is that neither one of my parents felt fully alive...