Word: contently
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...interesting answers. A few winters back, I was sitting over a cup of instant hot chocolate in Reykjavík, Iceland, with a fellow American, Eric Weiner. He was in town researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of why Icelanders consistently say they are content in a country they have nicknamed the "Ice Cube." I happened to live on the Ice Cube at the time, but I was taken aback when Weiner asked me, point blank, "Are you happy here...
...assumption is that the collective wisdom of journalists and researchers can provide guidance as to who will make the best leader. Clearly it is a subjective call, but most readers can distinguish between editorial content and general reporting. No one is being told how to vote. Readers have the choice to make up their own mind. Steven A. Ludsin, EAST HAMPTON...
...with students continuing to face parenthood with no pay or health insurance, some are not content to wait...
...decision is a light at the end of the tunnel for acting Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, who told The Crimson earlier this winter how “content, relaxed, and happy” his predecessor Gross looks, months after being relieved of the burdens of the office...
...message delivered there, however, remained a mystery, because the children refused to reveal the content of the vision they had been vouchsafed. Two of them died in childhood during an epidemic; but in 1941, Lucia, the survivor and by then a nun, released a description of the first two "secrets" from the Virgin that made headlines all over the world. One was a vivid vision of Hell; the other was a prediction that World War I would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would...