Word: companionship
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Mostly, however, virtual dating is boosting the confidence of many who long for companionship but have grown disillusioned with the old-fashioned ways of dating. At the offices of Match.com an e-mail arrived recently in the company's success-story In box from a man who said that at 70, he was taking off on a cross-country honeymoon with a new sweetheart. "I know some seniors are reluctant to date on the Web," he wrote. "But if a legally blind, bald, one-legged man can find love online, anyone...
...year-old art student in London in the 1950s, Jack Rathbone meets the already established Scottish painter Vera Savage. Thirteen years older, she's a nasty if bewitching specimen--brilliant when she cares to be but also alcoholic, feckless and carnal. The story of their long, dissolute companionship is told to us by Gin Rathbone, Jack's all-too-loving sister, a woman who does not grasp the full dimensions of the tale she is telling...
...Today, in our, honor courses, competent college students are invited to forage for themselves, and to discuss as well as to listen. In our seminaries they sit around a table in high intellectual companionship with the advanced student that we call the professor. In the laboratory the student with his own hands and eyes and brain must find out th truth or retire in defeat. Slowly we are learning that the only training that lasts is selftraining, and that unless the student educates himself, his remains forever a closed and darkened mind...
Covering the world each week would be impossible without the translators, drivers, facilitators and guides whose local knowledge and companionship are indispensable to foreign correspondents working in dangerous places. OMAR HASHIM KAMAL was one such treasure. Omar joined TIME's Baghdad bureau as a translator last April and immediately became one of the magazine's most vital assets, a man beloved by those of us who worked with him as much for his relentless conviviality as for his lightly worn erudition. On the morning of March 24, Omar, 48, was shot four times by unidentified assailants as he drove...
Covering the world each week would be impossible without the translators, drivers, facilitators and guides whose local knowledge and companionship are indispensable to foreign correspondents working in dangerous places. Omar Hashim Kamal was one such treasure. Omar joined TIME's Baghdad bureau as a translator last April and immediately became one of the magazine's most vital assets, a man beloved by those of us who worked with him as much for his relentless conviviality as for his lightly worn erudition. On the morning of March 24, Omar, 48, was shot four times by unidentified assailants as he drove...