Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tibetan co-stars. "I have to stay here," the young Dalai Lama says when offered a chance to escape the Chinese. "Saving others is my path to liberation." Pitt's response is admiration mixed with yearning. Seven Years speaks to our own situation as outsiders, filled with angst and ego, looking for something different, listening for the sound of horns and chanting...
...Ickes almost didn't speak at all, after a surprise sideshow squabble between Fred Thompson and his alter ego, ranking Democrat John Glenn. "Glenn wanted (White House Counsel) Charles Ruff to come up and tell his story about the tapes," reports AllPolitics correspondent Tom Moore. "It was meant to clear the air on why the tapes were not released in July, to address the disclosure problem and try to deflate Thompson's indignation...
...graduate of a University that, at a cost of $25 million, would gut its historic Freshman Union and rename it after a pair of donors, would declare: "New buildings are pleasant for the privileged students lucky enough to use them, and those big plaques are a nice ego reward for the benefactors. But are they really what society as a whole needs most right...
Without a driving story, Timequake depends entirely on the author's familiar tone of weary bemusement, at times attributed to Kilgore Trout, the fictional writer who has been Vonnegut's unaltered ego in previous novels. The connection between fiction and fact is readily apparent. Trout spends the rerun rewriting My Ten Years on Automatic Pilot. Vonnegut, who took nearly a decade to complete his aborted book, works through that same material again...
...building brands," he says. "And we're focusing more on brand building than others. My experience tells me that's a good thing." He talks in a soft, deliberate voice, and his vision for AOL is as clear as Case's, though there's always the possibility of an ego conflict between...