Word: contention
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...every person consumed with the need to achieve, there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting...
...third storyline follows Nick, a forger of famous autographs who plies his trade in a sports memorabilia shop. Not content with merely ripping off customers, he soon finds ways of stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably...
...It’s never clear why we were able to move Harvard in one issue and not in the other,” Joslin adds. “We probably don’t know all the content of the conversation...
...kinds of House communities to which undergraduates might feel genuinely attached.But more money alone isn’t enough.Even if HoCos are funded directly by the College, and even if their budgets are consequently increased, major differences among Houses will prevent a great many students from feeling genuinely content in their communities. I’m referring not to architecture or location, but rather to House trusts—anachronistic holdovers from a time when admission to Houses was by application and, as a result, Houses were divided along socio-economic lines.As one might expect, Houses pre-randomization boasted much...
...school Mountain Goats fans may look at “Love Love Love” with skeptical eyes, but to dismiss it outright is unwarranted. Unabashedly gentle, sincere, and un-ironic, the song represents Darnielle’s successful translation of his meticulous songwriting sincerity to uniquely personal content...