Word: commonality
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...course, I was aware that this is a relatively common ploy with low rates of success. But I intended to be the exception that proves the rule. In what I considered a particularly crafty tactic, I set my watch not to five minutes ahead--so easy to correct for the "real time"--but to the far more ambiguous seven minutes ahead. In this way, I succeeded in fooling myself to the extent that I even began showing up early. Yet there were limitations on the system. Because I rely on my clock rather than my watch while in my room...
Time is not our enemy. It is a tool to set us straight, to give us a frame for our lives, to place ourselves on common footing with everyone else. The next time we look at a clock, we should remember that it isn't guard in our personal prison--it's friendly face telling us that yes, there is a standard, and no, we are not alone. As you readjust to Daylight Savings Time, remember: You're the one telling time. Don't ever let time tell...
Although they operate in different media, TIME and CBS News have something in common: each institution has made its mark on the way news has been gathered and presented in this century. So when TIME embarked on its project of selecting the 100 Most Influential People of the Century, it was fitting that CBS News join us in producing a companion television series. The TIME 100 will be presented in six special issues and on six CBS News programs over the next two years...
...boys back to the dawn of human experience have had it in their bones to play violent games. Even the priggish Henry Adams, as a boy in the middle of the 19th century, joined the Latin School's army in a bloody rock-in-the-snowball battle on Boston Common against a mob of "blackguards from the slums...
...Snow also lamented the polarization of science and the humanities. His essay, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, sparked one of the liveliest debates of the postwar era. Today, of course, there are at least 22 cultures, each celebrating its difference, none much interested in looking for common ground...